Crinoidea |
Comatulida |
Comatulidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Reef-associated; depth range 4 - 50 m (Ref. 81020). Tropical
Indo-West Pacific: Bay of Bengal to Micronesia and from Japan to Indonesia.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Inhabits the infrastructure of reefs (Ref. 800). Found in a lagoon, under rubble, coral overhangs, and on fore reefs under crevices at night (Ref. 101028). Also beneath ledges, pinnacle overhangs on reef slope and among coral branches. May be cryptic or semicryptic (Ref. 100368). A host to a diverse assemblage of symbionts (Ref. 101028). Feeds on plankton and detritus (Ref. 800).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Members of the class Crinoidea are gonochoric. During spawning, the pinnule walls rupture and the eggs and sperms are shed into the seawater. Life cycle: Embryos elongate into free-swimming larvae (doliolaria) which later sink to the bottom where they metamorphose into stalked sessile crinoid.
Schoppe, S. 2000. (Ref. 800)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
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Age/Size
Growth
Length-weight
Length-length
Morphology
Larvae
Abundance
Internet sources
Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 25 - 29, mean 28 (based on 822 cells).
Price category
Unknown.