Tethyaster Sladen 1889

Tethyaster is a genus of echinoderms in the family Astropectinidae. They are carnivores.

EOL has data for 12 attributes, including:

trophic guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TrophicGuild
- Definition: A group of species that exploit the same food resources, and/or use the same feeding or foraging methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_(ecology)
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epifauna feeder
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/epifauna_feeder
- Definition: a carnivore that feeds primarily on epifauna, animals that live attached to surfaces
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trophic level
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1053008
- Definition: position of an organism in a food web. May be described verbally with descriptors including primary producer, herbivore or carnivore. If described numerically, 1 indicates a primary producer, 2 a herbivore, and so on up the food web.
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carnivore
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q81875
- Definition: organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue
- Attribution: Crustacean body sizes
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water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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12 m
water temperature
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SeawaterTemperature
- Definition: Temperature of the water at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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12.051 degrees celsius

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Tethyaster Sladen 1889. View this species on GBIF