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Actinoptilum molle Radial sea pen

Actinoptilum molle is commonly referred to as Radial sea pen. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!.

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Actinoptilum molle, Port Elizabeth 2011,Copyright Johan Swanepoel


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lexID:
9306 
AphiaID:
213049 
Scientific:
Actinoptilum molle 
German:
Seefeder 
English:
Radial Sea Pen 
Category:
Sea Pens 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Pennatulacea (Order) > Echinoptilidae (Family) > Actinoptilum (Genus) > molle (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Kükenthal, ), 1902 
Occurrence:
Indian Ocean, Mozambique, South-Africa, Western Indian Ocean 
Size:
up to 9.45" (24 cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 62.6 °F (°C - 17°C) 
Food:
Zooplankton 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for home aquaria! 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2016-02-14 17:51:39 

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Actinoptilum molle (Kükenthal, 1902)

Actinoptilum molle is endemic to Southern Africa.

The colour is higly variable and can be yellow,white to cream,reddish,pinkish-mauve,deep purple to reddidh purple. Then the polyps retracted this sea pen shows a metalic sheen.

The Radial sea pen can be found on sandy or silt bottoms to a depht of 12-333 m. This Sea pen feed microscopic zooplankton.

Actinoptilum molle is endemic to Southern Africa.

Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Pennatulacea (Order) > Echinoptilidae (Family) > Actinoptilum (Genus) > Actinoptilum molle (Species)

External links

  1. Eastern Cape Scuba Diving (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Wikipedia englisch (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Actinoptilum molle, Port Elizabeth 2011,Copyright Johan Swanepoel
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