Asterias argonauta is a starfish native to the Pacific coasts of Far East Russia.

[1] The species was first described by Alexander Michailovitsch Djakonov in 1950,[1][2][3] with the holotype collected in 1925 in the Peter the Great Gulf of the Sea of Japan near the Basargin Lighthouse, at a depth of 20m in the waters off Primorsky Krai.

[4][5] It has also been recovered in Chemulpo Bay, in northwestern South Korea.

[1] It has been found on silty sand or pebble substrates.

[2] Djakonov found it to be the most similar to Asterias rollestoni.