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

Mmene ungaizindikirire
- 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
Nthawi zambiri imasokonezedwa ndi: 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
Mphamvu ya ululu
Minga yakuthwa imanyamula ululu. Kuiponda kapena kuigwira kumapweteka.
Ululu wake umachita chiyani?
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
Ndi yoopsa bwanji kwa anthu?
Ngozi kwa anthu: YoopsaMinga yake ikakubaya, pita kwa dokotala. Imfa ndi zosowa kwambiri.The spines can cause sharp pain, long-lasting bleeding, nausea and swelling. Brittle spines can break off and stay in the tissue.1
Minga yake ikakubaya
- Spines that become embedded in the tissue must be removed surgically.1
- Ika bala m'madzi otentha, otentha monga momwe munthuyo angapirire osapsa, ndipo peza thandizo la dokotala kuti achotse minga. Usaikumbe wekha.
Nthawi zonse yamba wayimbira nambala yadzidzidzi (112, 000, 911). Awa ndi malangizo wamba a chithandizo choyamba, osati malangizo a dokotala. Zoyambira za chithandizo choyamba
Khala wotetezeka
- Usakhudze, kugwira kapena kuseweretsa nyama yakuthengo, ngakhale yaing'ono, ndipo ngakhale ikuoneka ngati yagona kapena yafa.
- Ipatse malo. Ukakumana nayo, khala chete, bwerera m'mbuyo pang'onopang'ono ndipo uilole ipite njira yake.
- Minga yake ikakubaya: khala chete, usasunthe, imbira nambala yadzidzidzi (112, 000, 911) kapena pita kuchipatala mwachangu. Kumbukira m'mene inkaonekera, chithunzi chimathandiza.
Sikufuna kukuvulaza. Imagwiritsa ntchito ululu wake kugwira chakudya kapena kudziteteza, ndipo imakonda kwambiri kubisala. Zambiri za kukhala wotetezeka
Kuti padziko lapansi?
Ndi yaikulu bwanji?
Ndi yaitali bwanji?
yaitali ngati zidutswa zomangira zoseweretsa 11 pamzere
yochedwa kuposa nkhono ya m'mundaCrown-of-thorns starfish ndi yaikulu bwanji poyerekeza ndi IWE?
Ndi masamu chabe mu msakatuli wako. Palibe chomwe chimasungidwa kapena kutumizidwa kwina.
Imathamanga bwanji?
Mfundo
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
Kuthetsa nthano zabodza
Nthano yabodza: Its spines inject venom like a snake or stinging animal.
Zoona: It has no mechanism for injecting toxin. Its spines pierce skin and leave saponin-containing tissue in the wound.1
Za akatswiri a ululu
- Dzina la sayansi
- Acanthaster planci
- Gulu
- Nungu za m'nyanja, nyenyezi za m'nyanja ndi nyongolotsi
- Banja
- Acanthasteridae2
- Dongosolo
- Valvatida
- Makontinenti
- Nyanja ya Indian, Nyanja ya Pacific, Nyanja Yofiira, Nyanja ya Coral, Nyanja ya Philippine, Nyanja ya South China, Nyanja ya Andaman, Nyanja ya Arabia ndi Gulf ya Persia, Nyanja ya Timor ndi Arafura, Nyanja ya Bengal, Nyanja zikuluzikulu
- Ana akhanda
- 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
- Ngozi kwa anthu
- 3 / 5: Yoopsa3
Kumene mfundo zimachokera
- Crown-of-thorns starfish (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Acanthaster planci (iNaturalist): mayina ndi magulu a sayansi.
- Venom Wiki: mlingo wa ngozi, kukula wamba ndi kuyerekeza kwa liwiro ndi zathu. Ona mmene timazipezera: Mmene timayezera ngozi.
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