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Alcyonium digitatum Dead Men’s Fingers

Alcyonium digitatum is commonly referred to as Dead Men’s Fingers. Difficulty in the aquarium: Cold water animal. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Tote Mannshand-Meerhand, Alcyonium digitatum , Die gezeigte Koralle lebt im Borkumer Nordseeaquarium. , eingestellt von Schnubbel in Was ist das 2020




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lexID:
12771 
AphiaID:
125333 
Scientific:
Alcyonium digitatum 
German:
Tote Manns Hand, Tote Meerhand 
English:
Dead Men’s Fingers 
Category:
Soft Corals 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Alcyoniidae (Family) > Alcyonium (Genus) > digitatum (Species) 
Initial determination:
Linnaeus, 1758 
Occurrence:
the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, British Virgin Islands, Canada Western Atlantic, European Coasts, North Atlantic Ocean, Portugal, Spain, the Mediterranean Sea 
Sea depth:
0 - 146 Meter 
Size:
5.91" - 7.87" (15cm - 20cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 64.4 °F (°C - 18°C) 
Food:
Amphipods, azooxanthellat, nonphotosynthetic, Copepods, Crustaceans, Daphnia salina, Invertebrates, Mysis, Plankton, Zooplankton 
Difficulty:
Cold water animal 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2025-12-08 21:17:00 

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Alcyonium digitatum Linnaeus, 1758

Dead man's fingers is a colonial coral forming clumps of yellow, white or cream-coloured fleshy masses of finger-like lobes. They are suspension feeders gathering plankton.

Synonymised names:
Lobularia digitata (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)

External links

  1. Unterwasser-Welt-Nordsee (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Wikipedia (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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© Anne Frijsinger & Mat Vestjens, Holland
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© Anne Frijsinger & Mat Vestjens, Holland
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© Anne Frijsinger & Mat Vestjens, Holland
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© Anne Frijsinger & Mat Vestjens, Holland
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Alcyonium digitatum,Schouwen-Duiveland, Netherlands 2016
Tote Mannshand-Meerhand, Alcyonium digitatum , Die gezeigte Koralle lebt im Borkumer Nordseeaquarium. , eingestellt von Schnubbel in Was ist das 2020

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