Virgularia mirabilis Slender sea pen

Virgularia mirabilis is commonly referred to as Slender sea pen. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

5844 

AphiaID:

128539 

Scientific:

Virgularia mirabilis 

German:

Schlanke Seefeder 

English:

Slender Sea Pen 

Category:

Plume de mer 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Pennatulacea (Order) > Virgulariidae (Family) > Virgularia (Genus) > mirabilis (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Müller, ), 1776 

Occurrence:

Straße von Gibraltar, the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, Canada Eastern Pacific, East-Atlantic Ocean, European Coasts, Gulf of Mexico, Nigeria, Portugal, Scandinavia, South-Africa, Spain, the British Isles, the Isle of Man, the Ivory Coast, the Mediterranean Sea, The Shetland Islands (Scotland), USA, West Africa, West-Atlantic Ocean 

Size:

up to 23.62" (60 cm) 

Temperature:

46.4 °F - 73.4 °F (8°C - 23°C) 

Food:

Filter feeder, Plankton 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for aquarium keeping 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Virgularia abies
• Virgularia agassizi
• Virgularia alba
• Virgularia brochi
• Virgularia bromleyi
• Virgularia densa
• Virgularia galapagensis
• Virgularia glacialis
• Virgularia gracilis
• Virgularia gracillima
• 
  Virgularia gustaviana
  Seefeder
• Virgularia halisceptrum
• Virgularia juncea
• Virgularia kophameli
• Virgularia loveni
• 
  Virgularia mirabilis
  Schlanke Seefeder
• Virgularia presbytes
• Virgularia reinwardti
• Virgularia rumphi
• 
  Virgularia schultzei
  Seefeder
• Virgularia tuberculata
• Alle anzeigen

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Virgularia sp.01
  Seefeder

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2013-08-06 21:57:03 

Last edit:

2013-08-06 21:57:03 

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