What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Antarctic Feather Star been recorded?

Promachocrinus kerguelensis occurrence evidence comes from 2,049 records in 11 countries and territories, from 1902 to 2023. Most records come from Antarctica.

Antarctic Feather Star
Antarctic Feather Star — Photo (display-sized rendition): Creator Eric A. Lazo-Wasem Gall L (2018). Invertebrate Zoology Division, Yale Peabody Museum. Yale University Peabody Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/0lkr3w accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-12-21. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/350708239 · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
CrinoideaComatulidaAntedonidaePromachocrinus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

2,049 records across 11 countries and territories, 1902–2023.

Promachocrinus kerguelensis · GBIF taxon key 4341144

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-21. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: February.

6 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: February. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

19022023

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Antarctic Feather Star has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Antarctic Feather Star. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Antarctica 1,793
French Southern Territories 111
South Georgia 106
DR Congo 17
Heard & McDonald Islands 11
New Zealand 2
United States 2
Australia 1
Chile 1
Spain 1
Japan 1
Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.