Ophiuroidea |
Amphilepidida |
Amphiuridae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / εύρος βάθους / distribution range
Οικολογία
; Υφάλμυρο; εύρος βάθους 5 - 40 m (Αναφ. 85345). Temperate
Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea: Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China). Temperate and subtropical.
Length at first maturity / Μέγεθος / Weight / Age
Γεννητική Ωρίμανση: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Inhabit estuarine and inshore areas, in mud or substrates of silt to fine sand. A microvore that feeds on organic detritus as well as a carnivore-scavenger (Ref. 96352). Free-living (Ref. 3123).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Γεννητική Ωρίμανση | Αναπαραγωγή | Γεννοβολία | Eggs | Γονιμότητα | Larvae
Members of the class Ophiuroidea are mostly gonochoric, others are protandric. Fertilization is external. Brooding is common, bursae is used as brood chambers where the embryos develop into juveniles and later crawl out from the bursal slits. Life cycle: Embryos hatch into free-swimming planktotrophic larvae and later metamorphose into tiny brittle stars which sink down the bottom where they grow into adult form.
Garmendia, J.M., J.M. Parada and J. Mora 2003 Niveles de penetración de los diferentes grupos macroinfaunales en los sedimentos arenosos sublitorales de la ría de Ares y Betanzos (Galicia) (noroeste de la península Ibérica). Bol. Inst. Esp. Oceanogr. 19 (1-4):283-291. (Αναφ. 2795)
IUCN Red List Status
(Αναφ. 130435: Version 2025-1)
CITES status (Αναφ. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Human uses
| FishSource |
Εργαλεία
Περισσότερες πληροφορίες
Population dynamicsΑύξησηMax. ages / sizesLength-weight rel.Length-length rel.Length-frequenciesMass conversionΑφθονία Life cycleΑναπαραγωγήΓεννητική ΩρίμανσηΓονιμότηταΓεννοβολίαEggsEgg developmentLarvae PhysiologyΚατανάλωση οξυγόνου
Human RelatedStamps, coins, misc.
Διαδικτυακές πηγές
Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 8.4 - 12.4, mean 10.3 (based on 164 cells).
Price category
Unknown.
