Flustra foliacea Leafy bryozoan, greater horn wrack

Flustra foliacea is commonly referred to as Leafy bryozoan, greater horn wrack. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

6401 

AphiaID:

111367 

Scientific:

Flustra foliacea 

German:

Blätter-Moostierchen 

English:

Leafy Bryozoan, Greater Horn Wrack 

Category:

 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Bryozoa (Phylum) > Gymnolaemata (Class) > Cheilostomatida (Order) > Flustridae (Family) > Flustra (Genus) > foliacea (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Linnaeus, ), 1758 

Occurrence:

the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, Canada Eastern Pacific, European Coasts, North Atlantic Ocean, Scandinavia, the British Isles, West-Atlantic Ocean 

Size:

2.36" - 7.87" (6cm - 20cm) 

Temperature:

°F - 64.4 °F (°C - 18°C) 

Food:

Plankton, Suspension feeder 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Flustra anguloavicularis
• Flustra capitata
• Flustra digitata
• 
  Flustra foliacea
  Blätter-Moostierchen
• Flustra italica
• Flustra nordenskjoldi
• Flustra pedunculata
• Flustra separata

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2013-11-10 19:48:05 

Last edit:

2013-11-10 19:48:05 

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