Species Detail - Common Brittlestar (Ophiothrix fragilis) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Irish Lagoon Surveys".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Ophiothrix fragilis
Common Brittlestar
NBNSYS0000176873 UnverifiedUnverified
N/A
opfra
(Abildgaard, 1789)
echinoderm
Species
1
1
1
25/09/1998
26/09/1998
11 January (recorded in 2024)
17 December (recorded in 2024)
Geoff Oliver and Eddie McCormack, Irish Lagoon Surveys, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Brittlestar (Ophiothrix fragilis), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/303/Species/27464>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)