Sunflower seastar

Summary

Sunflower seastar is a taxon^[1]. It ranks in the top 0.76% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (144 views/month, #1,487 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• Sunflower seastar's image is recorded as Sun flower sea star in tide pools.jpg^[3].
• Sunflower seastar's image is recorded as Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary 2010 Pycnopodia helianthoides.jpg^[4].
• Sunflower seastar's instance of is recorded as taxon^[5].
• Sunflower seastar's taxon rank is recorded as species^[6].
• Sunflower seastar's IUCN conservation status is recorded as Critically Endangered^[7].
• Sunflower seastar's parent taxon is recorded as Pycnopodia^[8].
• Sunflower seastar's taxon name is recorded as Pycnopodia helianthoides^[9].
• Sunflower seastar's Commons category is recorded as Pycnopodia helianthoides^[10].
• Sunflower seastar's IUCN taxon ID is recorded as 178290276^[11].
• Sunflower seastar's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02qhnkg^[12].
• Sunflower seastar's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 7614^[13].
• Sunflower seastar's ITIS TSN is recorded as 157274^[14].
• Sunflower seastar's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 598461^[15].
• Sunflower seastar's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2274565^[16].
• Sunflower seastar's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 240764^[17].
• Sunflower seastar's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Pycnopodia helianthoides^[18].
• Sunflower seastar's Commons gallery is recorded as Pycnopodia helianthoides^[19].
• Sunflower seastar's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/sunflower-sea-star^[20].
• Sunflower seastar's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'P. helianthoides'}^[21].
• Sunflower seastar's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Sunflower star'}^[22].
• Sunflower seastar's ARKive ID is recorded as pycnopodia-helianthoides^[23].
• Sunflower seastar's ARKive ID is recorded as sunflower-star/pycnopodia-helianthoides^[24].
• Sunflower seastar's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0998663^[25].
• Sunflower seastar's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 47673^[26].
• Sunflower seastar's BOLD Systems taxon ID is recorded as 82338^[27].

Why It Matters

Sunflower seastar ranks in the top 0.76% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (144 views/month, #1,487 of 195,241).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]