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Decametra chadwicki Chadwick's feather star

Decametra chadwicki is commonly referred to as Chadwick's feather star. Difficulty in the aquarium: niveau expert! très difficile à garder!.

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Decametra chadwicki © Anne Frijsinger & Mat Vestjens, Holland


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lexID:
6224 
AphiaID:
213342 
Scientific:
Decametra chadwicki 
German:
Chadwick's Haarstern 
English:
Chadwick's Feather Star 
Category:
Crinoïdes 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Comatulida (Order) > Colobometridae (Family) > Decametra (Genus) > chadwicki (Species) 
Initial determination:
(AH Clark, ), 1911 
Occurrence:
Suez-Kanal, Egypt, Red Sea 
Size:
up to 3.54" (9 cm) 
Temperature:
68 °F - 77 °F (20°C - 25°C) 
Food:
Food specialist, Plankton 
Difficulty:
niveau expert! très difficile à garder! 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
  • Decametra mylitta
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2013-10-16 11:35:41 

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Decametra chadwicki (AH Clark, 1911)

Adult feather stars are free to move, can be crawling, walking, some species can swim. Nevertheless, they live and keep hemisessil mainly on exposed, elevated locations on stones, corals or sponges. Feather stars are filter feeders and food specialists,therefore only for experts.Arms of Decametra chadwicki be up to 9 cm.

The photo is from Egypt.

Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) >Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) >Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Mariametroidea (Superfamily) > CrColobometridae (Family) > Decametra (Genus)

External links

  1. Homepage von Anne Frijsinger & Mat Vestjens (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Wikipedia (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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