Family: |
Sternaspidae () |
Max. size: |
|
Environment: |
benthic; brackish; marine; depth range 6 - 181 m |
Distribution: |
Arctic, Indo-Pacific, Atlantic, Adriatic, Mediterranean and Antarctic Atlantic: Central America to northern Brazil and Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Tropical to polar. |
Diagnosis: |
|
Biology: |
Minimum depth from Ref. 127093. In well sorted sediments mainly composed of coarse to fine sand (Ref. 127093). A subsurface deposit-feeder (Refs. 96292, 96498). Surface deposit feeder (Ref. 108299). Motile burrower that uses an unarmed pharynx for feeding (Ref. 125872). |
IUCN Red List Status: |
Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
|
Threat to humans: |
|
Country info: |
|
Source and more info: www.sealifebase.org. For personal, classroom, and other internal use only. Not for publication.
Warning: Unknown: open(e:\temp\sess_uhhajhvpb09f9a54bfhkm80e34, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in Unknown on line 0
Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (e:\temp) in Unknown on line 0