Mantenimiento programado (scheduled maintenance) el
Echinaster sepositus (Retzius, 1783)
Estrella rugosa, estrella de mar roja
Metazoa
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Spinulosida
Echinasteridae
ENDEMICITY
Canarias Gender Do not
Species Do not
Subspecies -
Macaronesia Gender Do not
Species Do not
Subspecies -
Distribution in the Canary Islands
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  • High confidence - Land
  • High confidence - Marine (<200m)
  • Medium / low confidence
  • No information

  • With presence in the sea
  • No presence at sea
Worldwide distribution

Mediterranean Sea and East Atlantic Ocean from Northern Brittany to Cape Verde.

Distribution in the Canary Islands

Coasts Southwest of El Hierro, South, Southwest, Southeast, East, Northeast and North of La Palma, South of La Gomera, Southeast, South, Southwest and North of Tenerife, Northeast, Northwest and Southeast of Gran Canaria, South, East and Northwest of Fuerteventura, South, East and Northeast of Lanzarote, and Canary archipelago (Graciosa, Montaña Clara and Alegranza).

Origin

Habitat

In the infra and circalitoral, both rocky bottoms as mixed sandy or barley. In the Canary Islands, we find it in the infralittoral and circalitoral zones, both on rocky and mixed sandy or barley bottoms. (Vice-Ministry of the Environment, 2009)

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