- Animals
- ›Echinoderms
- ›Sea Stars and Brittle Stars
- ›Brittle Stars
- ›Myophiuroida
- ›Metophiurida
- ›Ophintegrida
- ›Amphilepididans
- ›Gnathophiurina
- ›Amphiuroidea
- ›Long-armed Burrowing Brittle Stars
- ›Amphiura
Amphiura filiformis
Amphiura filiformis is a species of brittle star belonging to the family Amphiuridae. It is found on the seabed in the north east Atlantic Ocean and adjoining seas to a depth of 200 metres (660 ft). It digs itself a shallow burrow in the sand and waves its arms in the water above to suspension feed on plankton.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Amphiura filiformis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 255786.