Crown-of-thorns starfish
The crown-of-thorns starfish is a large starfish with long, sharp spines that look like a crown of thorns. It lives on coral reefs across the Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea to the west coast of Central America, and it is most common around Australia. It feeds on hard coral, so it can change the reefs it lives on.1

Sɛdeɛ wobɛhunu no
- Adults are normally 25 to 35 cm across.1
- Up to 21 arms, with long, stiff, very sharp spines that are 4 to 5 cm long on the top and sides of the arms.1
- Colour varies with diet or region: purple, purple-blue, reddish grey or brown with red spine tips, or green with yellow spine tips.1
- The body is flexible and can bend and twist around coral surfaces.1
Wɔtaa fa no sɛ: A close relative, Acanthaster brevispinus, lives on soft sea floors at moderate depths rather than on coral reefs. The two are considered sibling species.1
Bɔre ahoɔden
Nsɔe a ano yɛ nnam na ɛkura bɔre no. Sɛ wotiatia so anaa wosɔ mu a, ɛyɛ yaw.
Ne bɔre yɛ dɛn?
The spines do not inject venom. When they pierce skin, tissue containing saponins (detergent-like chemicals) is left in the wound. In humans this causes a sharp, stinging pain that can last several hours, persistent bleeding, and nausea and swelling that may last a week or more.1
Ne asiane ma nnipa te sɛn?
Asiane ma nnipa: Ɛyɛ denSɛ ne nsɔe hyɛ wo mu a, kɔ dɔkota nkyɛn. Ɛntaa nkum obi koraa.The spines can cause sharp pain, long-lasting bleeding, nausea and swelling. Brittle spines can break off and stay in the tissue.1
Sɛ ne nsɔe hyɛ wo mu a
- Spines that become embedded in the tissue must be removed surgically.1
- Fa kuro no hyɛ nsuo hyew mu, ɛnyɛ hyew sene deɛ onipa no betumi agyina a ɛnhye no, na hwehwɛ dɔkota mmoa na wɔayi nsɔe no. Mmɔ mmɔden sɛ wo ankasa wobɛtutu wɔn.
Di kan frɛ wo ahohiahia nɔma (112, 000, 911). Yei yɛ mmoa a ɛdi kan ho akwankyerɛ, ɛnyɛ dɔkota afotuo. Mmoa a ɛdi kan ho nsɛm titiriw
Hwɛ wo ho so
- Mfa wo nsa nka wiram aboa biara, nkyere no na mfa no nni agorɔ, sɛ ɔyɛ ketewa mpo, na sɛ ɛte sɛ ɔrededa anaa wawu mpo a.
- Ma no kwan. Sɛ wohyia baako a, ma wo bo nnwo, san w'akyi brɛoo na ma ɔnkɔ ne kwan.
- Sɛ ne nsɔe hyɛ wo mu a: ma wo bo nnwo, tena dinn, frɛ wo ahohiahia nɔma (112, 000, 911) anaa kɔ ayaresabea ntɛm. Kae sɛdeɛ na ɛte, mfonini bɛboa.
Ɛnhwehwɛ wo sɛ ɛbɛpira wo. Ɛde ne bɔre kyere aduane anaa ɛbɔ ne ho ban, na ɛpɛ sɛ ɛhinta sene biribiara. Nsɛm pii fa ahobammɔ ho
Wiase mu baabi bɛn?
Ne kɛseɛ te sɛn?
Ne tenten te sɛn?
ne tenten te sɛ agodeɛ blɔk 11 a wɔde to ntoatoasoɔ mu
ɛyɛ brɛoo sen nwa a ɔte turomCrown-of-thorns starfish kɛseɛ te sɛn sɛ wode toto WO ho a?
Akontabuo kɛkɛ wɔ wo browser mu. Wɔnkora hwee, na wɔmfa hwee nkɔ baabiara.
Ne ntɛm te sɛn?
Nsɛm
An individual starfish can consume up to 6 square metres of living coral reef per year.1
When taken out of water, its soft body ruptures and collapses, but its spines can recover their shape if it is put back in the water while still alive.1
Its body contains detergent-like saponins, so keeping starfish in small volumes of water with aeration produces large amounts of foam.1
It is one of the largest starfish in the world.1
It has lost the usual five-fold symmetry of starfish as it grew more arms, although it begins life with five-fold symmetry.1
Atosɛm sɛefoɔ
Atosɛm: Its spines inject venom like a snake or stinging animal.
Nokorɛ: It has no mechanism for injecting toxin. Its spines pierce skin and leave saponin-containing tissue in the wound.1
Ma bɔre ho animdefoɔ
- Nyansahu din
- Acanthaster planci
- Kuo
- Sea urchins, ɛpo nsoromma ne sonsono
- Abusua
- Acanthasteridae2
- Nhyehyɛeɛ (Order)
- Valvatida
- Asaase akɛseɛ
- India Po, Pacific Po, Po Kɔkɔɔ, Coral Po, Philippine Po, China Anaafoɔ Po, Andaman Po, Arabia Po ne Persia Ɛpo Ano, Timor ne Arafura Po, Bengal Ɛpo Ano, Po akɛseɛ
- Mmofra nketewa
- It releases vast amounts of eggs and sperm (gametes) during mass spawning events in summer, and the eggs contain saponins similar to those in adults.1
- Asiane ma nnipa
- 3 / 5: Ɛyɛ den3
Baabi a nsɛm no fi
- Crown-of-thorns starfish (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Acanthaster planci (iNaturalist): din ne nkyekyɛmu.
- Venom Wiki: asiane gyinabea, kɛseɛ a ɛtaa yɛ ne ntɛm susuo no yɛ yɛn ankasa deɛ. Hwɛ sɛdeɛ yɛbu no: Sɛdeɛ yɛkyerɛ asiane gyinabea.
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