Asteroidea | 
Paxillosida | 
Astropectinidae
			
			
			
				Environment: milieu / climate zone / пределы глубины / distribution range				
				
					экология				
				
			
			
				ассоциированный с рифами;  пределы глубины 0 - 222 m (ссылка 106682).  Tropical			
			
			
				
			
			
			
				Southeast Atlantic and entire tropical Indo-Pacific from Red Sea and South Africa to the Hawaiian Islands.
			
			
			
			
			
				Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Возраст
			
			
				половая зрелость: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 12.0 cm WD самец/пол неопределен; (ссылка 800)			
			
			
							
				
				
					
						The five arms have blunt and tapered ends that curve slightly upwards. Both oral and aboral sides are flattened, with the aboral disc being slightly convex. Body color varies from greenish-blue, to brownish-gray and dark reddish-brown. This species is characterized by its distinctive laterally projecting rows of spines on the supero-marginal plate.					
				
				
						
			
			
			
			
				
					Buried in the sand during daytime and crawls on the sand to search for food at night.  Feeds primarily on bivalves and gastropods and other small invertebrates buried in the sand (Ref. 800).				
			
			
			
			
			
				Life cycle and mating behavior				
					половая зрелость | размножение | нерест | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae				
			
			
				
					Members of the class Asteroidea exhibit both asexual (regeneration and clonal) and sexual (gonochoric) means of reproduction.  Life cycle:  Embryos hatch into planktonic larvae and later metamorphose into pentamorous juveniles which develop into young sea stars with stubby arms.				
			
			
			
			
				Основная ссылка  				
					ссылки | координатор | соавторы
				
			
			
				Schoppe, S. 2000 A guide to common shallow water sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers and feather stars (echinoderms) of the Philippines. Times Media Private Limited, Singapore. 144 p. (ссылка 800)
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
					
						Статус Красного Списка МСОП    
						 (ссылка 130435: Version 2025-1)
					
					
					
				
			
			
			
			
				Статус СИТЕС   (ссылка 108899)
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
				CMS (ссылка 116361)
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
				Угроза для людей  
			
			
				
					  Harmless				
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
				Использование человеком  
			
			
							
			
			
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  Life cycleразмножениеполовая зрелостьFecundityнерестEggsРазвитие икрыLarvae   PhysiologyOxygen consumption
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				Estimates based on models
			
			
			
									
						Preferred temperature  					
				 (Ref. 
115969): 15.3 - 29, mean 27.4 (based on 2738 cells).			
 
			
			
			
			
			
						
							
				
					
						Fishing Vulnerability  					
					
					
						Low vulnerability (10 of 100).					
				
						
						
			
									
						Категория цены  					
					
					Unknown.