Comaster schlegelii Schlegel's Feather Star, Variable Bushy Feather Star

Comaster schlegeliiis commonly referred to as Schlegel's Feather Star, Variable Bushy Feather Star . Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

4830 

AphiaID:

246756 

Scientific:

Comaster schlegelii 

German:

Schlegels Haarstern, Variabler Federstern 

English:

Schlegel's Feather Star, Variable Bushy Feather Star  

Category:

Feather Stars 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidae (Family) > Comaster (Genus) > schlegelii (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Carpenter, ), 1881 

Occurrence:

(the) Maldives, Australia, China, Eastern Indian Ocean, Fiji, Guam, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland (Australia), Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Western Australia 

Sea depth:

0 - 278 Meter 

Habitats:

Coral reefs 

Size:

up to 13.78" (35 cm) 

Temperature:

59.72 °F - 82.04 °F (15.4°C - 27.8°C) 

Food:

Detritus, Phytoplankton, Zooplankton 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for aquarium keeping 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Comaster distincta
• Comaster multibrachiatus
• Comaster multiradiata

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Comaster audax
  Haarstern, Federstern
• 
  Comaster multifidus
  Haarstern
• 
  Comaster nobilis
  Edel-Haarstern, Nobler-Haarstern
• 
  Comaster schlegelii
  Schlegels Haarstern, Variabler Federstern
• 
  Comaster sp.
  Haarstern

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2012-11-11 15:46:11 

Last edit:

2022-01-12 09:00:46 

Info

Pictures

Commonly

2

1

1

1

1

1

Show more pictures

Husbandry know-how of owners