Tripneustes ventricosus

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lexID:

3368 

Scientific:

Tripneustes ventricosus 

German:

Karibischer Seeigel 

English:

West Indian sea egg 

Category:

Søpindsvin 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Camarodonta (Order) > Toxopneustidae (Family) > Tripneustes (Genus) > ventricosus (Species) 

Initial determination:

Lamarck, 1816 

Occurrence:

Haiti, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Cuba, Panama, Bahamas, Belize, Caribien, Dominikanske republik, Florida, Honduras, Mexiko (Øst Pacific) 

Sea depth:

1 - 67 Meter 

Size:

10 cm - 15 cm 

Temperature:

23°C - 28°C 

Food:

Alger 

Tank:

~ 100 Liter 

Difficulty:

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

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Tripneustes depressus
  Seeigel
• 
  Tripneustes gratilla
  Pfaffenhut-Seeigel
• 
  Tripneustes ventricosus
  Karibischer Seeigel

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2010-10-19 20:01:54 

Last edit:

2018-03-12 20:28:10 

Husbandry

Tripneustes ventricosus
They are common in the Caribbean, Bahamas, and Florida, and may be found at depths of 0 to 10 metres.

The West Indian sea egg feeds on algae but tends to avoid the crustose, highly calcified coralline algae

Synonyms:
Echinus ventricosus Lamarck, 1816
Heliechinus gouldii Girard, 1850 )
Hipponoe esculenta A. Agassiz, 1872
Tripneustes esculenta (A. Agassiz, 1872)
Tripneustes esculentus (A. Agassiz, 1872)

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