Ophiocomella alexandri Alexander's Spiny Brittle Star

Ophiocomella alexandri wird umgangssprachlich oft als Alexanders Schlangenstern bezeichnet.

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lexID:

11764 

AphiaID:

1306697 

Scientific:

Ophiocomella alexandri 

German:

Alexanders Schlangenstern 

English:

Alexander's Spiny Brittle Star 

Category:

 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiacanthida (Order) > Ophiocomidae (Family) > Ophiocomella (Genus) > alexandri (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Lyman, ), 1860 

Occurrence:

Columbia, Costa Rica, Eastern Pacific Ocean, Galapagos Islands, Guatemala, Gulf of California, Honduras, Mexico (East Pacific), Nicaragua, North Pacific (Ocean), Panama, USA 

Sea depth:

1 - 70 Meter 

Food:

Carrion, Detritus 

Difficulty:

There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 

Offspring:

None 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Ophiocomella caribbaea
• Ophiocomella ophiactoides
• Ophiocomella schmitti
• Ophiocomella sexradia

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Ophiocomella alexandri
  Alexanders Schlangenstern
• 
  Ophiocomella pumila
  Schlangenstern
• 
  Ophiocomella sp.
  Schlangenstern

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2018-10-31 16:09:02 

Last edit:

2018-10-31 16:30:38 

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