Species Detail - Common Brittlestar (Ophiothrix fragilis) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "SeaSearch records from Irish coastal waters".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Live Map

Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Live Map
Ophiothrix fragilis
Common Brittlestar
N/A
N/A
opfra
(Abildgaard, 1789)
echinoderm
Species
100
34
24
01/02/2004
16/10/2021
11 January (recorded in 2024)
24 November (recorded in 1993)
Seasearch, SeaSearch records from Irish coastal waters, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Brittlestar (Ophiothrix fragilis), accessed 22 February 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/158/Species/27464>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)