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Common basket star
Gorgonocephalus eucnemis (Common basket star · オキノテヅルモヅル)
Not Evaluated (NE) on the IUCN Red List yet.
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its arm-spread diameter of 76 cm is about 1.7 times the shoulder width of an adult (about 45 cm).
- 💡 Its recorded depth of 1,850 m is more than 3 times the height of Lotte World Tower (555 m).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
📖 1. Overview
The common basket star is a large brittle star that lives on rocky bottoms in the Arctic and Eastern Pacific.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
It is a large basket star reaching up to 76 cm in diameter with its arms spread.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It lives on rocks on the seafloor at depths from 8 m to 1,850 m. Brittle stars mostly have separate sexes with external fertilization, and commonly use internal pouches as brood chambers for raising young.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
It is listed as 'Jinsamcheonbari' in the National List of Species of Korea.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List: not evaluated (NE) — cross-checked with the Wikidata conservation-status entry
- • marinespecies.org — aphia.php
- • 국가생물종목록(국립생물자원관) ktsn 120000081969 — https://species.nibr.go.kr/home/mainHome.do?cont_link=009&subMenu=009002&contCd=009002&ktsn=120000081969
- • wikidata.org — Q2045008
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Gorgeucnemis.jpeg
- • sealifebase.se — Gorgonocephalus-eucnemis.html
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — author not recorded · CC0 1.0
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.