Amphiaster insignis

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lexID:: 9514
AphiaID:: 368865

Scientific:: Amphiaster insignis
German:: Dorniger Seestern
English:: Spiny Seastar, Red Spiny Seastar

Category:: Søstjerner
Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatida (Order) > Asterodiscididae (Family) > Amphiaster (Genus) > insignis (Species)
Initial determination:: Verrill, 1868

Occurrence:: Guatemala, Panama, Californiske golf, Caribien, Mexikanske golf
Size:: 7.5 cm - 18 cm
Temperature:: 16°C - 23,5°C
Food:: Sea weed, Predatory, Alger, Søstjerner
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

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Amphiaster insignis
Dorniger Seestern

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2016-03-15 12:10:56
Last edit:: 2016-03-15 12:10:56

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Verrill, 1868

Amphiaster insignis is an attractive and distinctive sea star and is characterized by its uniformly colored red-orange to red-brown body and webbed arms.
The Seastar has a broad flat disc with triangularly shaped arms that are covered with large, smooth, heavy, randomly spaced highly movable conical spines.

Similar species: Paulia horrida

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Asterodiscididae (Family) > Amphiaster (Genus) > Amphiaster insignis (Species)

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