Tropiometra afra
Amazing fact
The Oumishida feather star spreads featherlike branches to catch plankton carried by the current.
沖縄美ら海水族館
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The Oumishida feather star spreads featherlike branches to catch plankton carried by the current.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Tropiometra afra
- Scientific name
- Tropiometra afra
- Japanese name
- オオウミシダ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Crinoidea
- Order
- Comatulida
- Family
- Tropiometridae
- Genus
- Tropiometra
It lives from south of Sagami Bay to the western Pacific and Indian Ocean, in places where the current flows well.
How the Tropiometra afra lives
It lives on rock surfaces in coral reefs.
沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- South of Sagami Bay, western Pacific, and Indian Ocean
Where the Tropiometra afra has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- オオウミシダ
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — オオウミシダChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — オオウミシダChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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