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

Otú ị ga-esi mata ya
- 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
A na-agwakọkarị ya na: 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
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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
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Ihe ize ndụ nye mmadụ: Ọ dị njọỌ bụrụ na mkpu ya dụrụ gị, gaa n'ebe dọkịta. Ọnwụ anaghị adịkarị ma ọlị.The spines can cause sharp pain, long-lasting bleeding, nausea and swelling. Brittle spines can break off and stay in the tissue.1
Ọ bụrụ na mkpu ya dụrụ gị
- Spines that become embedded in the tissue must be removed surgically.1
- Tinye ọnya ahụ n'ime mmiri ọkụ, nke ọkụ dị ka onye ahụ nwere ike ịnagide n'ere ya ọkụ, chọọkwa enyemaka ọgwụ iji wepụ mkpu ndị ahụ. Egwula ha n'onwe gị.
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- Emetụla anụ ọhịa aka, ejidela ya, emekwala ya ihe ọjọọ, ọbụna obere, ọbụna ma ọ dị ka ọ na-ehi ụra ma ọ bụ nwụọ anwụ.
- Nye ya ohere. Ọ bụrụ na ị zutere otu, dị jụụ, laghachi azụ nwayọ, hapụ ya ka ọ gaa ụzọ ya.
- Ọ bụrụ na mkpu ya dụrụ gị: dị jụụ, emegharịla ahụ, kpọọ nọmba mberede gị (112, 000, 911) ma ọ bụ gaa ụlọ ọgwụ ngwa ngwa. Cheta ka o si dị, foto na-enye aka.
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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
Onye na-ekpughe akụkọ ụgha
Akụkọ ụgha: Its spines inject venom like a snake or stinging animal.
Eziokwu: It has no mechanism for injecting toxin. Its spines pierce skin and leave saponin-containing tissue in the wound.1
Maka ndị ọkachamara nsị
- Aha sayensị
- Acanthaster planci
- Otu
- Urchin, kpakpando osimiri na ikpuru
- Ezinụlọ
- Acanthasteridae2
- Usoro
- Valvatida
- Kọntinent dị iche iche
- Oké Osimiri India, Oké Osimiri Pasifik, Osimiri Uhie, Osimiri Coral, Osimiri Filipin, Osimiri Ndịda China, Osimiri Andaman, Osimiri Arabia na Ọwara Peshia, Osimiri Timor na Arafura, Ọwara Bengal, Oké osimiri niile
- Ụmụ ọhụrụ
- 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
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- Crown-of-thorns starfish (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Acanthaster planci (iNaturalist): aha na nhazi ọkwa.
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