---
title: "Estrella de mar de cinco brazos"
description: "Stichaster striatus — Otros animales. Stichaster striatus, the common light striated star, is a species of starfish in the family Stichasteridae, found in the southeastern Pacific Ocean."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/common-light-striated-sea-star
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Estrella de mar de cinco brazos

> Stichaster striatus — Otros animales. Stichaster striatus, the common light striated star, is a species of starfish in the family Stichasteridae, found in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.

- Scientific name: *Stichaster striatus*
- Category: `other` (Otros animales)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar y costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 653
- Wikidata: [Q2354442](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2354442)
- iNaturalist taxon: [293182](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/293182)

## Names

- en: Common Light-striated Sea Star
- es: Estrella de mar de cinco brazos

## Countries with the most observations

CL (501), PE (94)

## Summary

Stichaster striatus, the common light striated star, is a species of starfish in the family Stichasteridae, found in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. It was first described by the German zoologists Johannes Peter Müller and Franz Hermann Troschel in 1840.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stichaster_striatus

## Photo

![Estrella de mar de cinco brazos](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-light-striated-sea-star/medium.jpg)

Photo: Ruth Gutiérrez Oliveros · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/337767899

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/common-light-striated-sea-star?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).