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Sea lilies and feather stars live in the western part of the Pacific Ocean and on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. ... Most sea lilies live in deep water, and most feather stars live on coral reefs. Both animals usually live on hard surfaces.
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animals.jrank.org/pages/1598/Sea-Lilies-Feather-Stars-C...
animals.jrank.org/pages/1598/Sea-Lilies-Feather-Stars-Crinoidea.html
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Feather stars and sea lilies (Crinoidea). ... Some brittle stars and sea stars can reproduce asexually by breaking a ray or arm or by deliberately splitting the body in half. Each half then becomes a whole new animal.
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www.starfish.ch/reef/echinoderms.html
www.starfish.ch/reef/echinoderms.html
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Crinoids, also known as "sea lilies" or "feather-stars", ... Crinoids reproduce sexually by the males releasing their sperm and the females releasing their eggs into the current where they will develop into a bottom-dwelling non-feeding larval stage and then eventually grow a stalk (in the stalked crinoids), and within 10 to...
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www.ladyelliot.com.au/floraFauna/detail.asp?ID=43
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The class called Crinoidea contains the marine feather stars. There are approximately 625 species of feather stars and like most echinoderm classes, crinoids are found in most oceans and at all depths. They are a strange sight to behold. ... How do they grow and reproduce?
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www.reef.edu.au/asp_pages/secb.asp?FormNo=44
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Feather stars usually live in clumps, preferring to attach to crevices, lateral surfaces, or in other places in which they can hide their central mass. ... All crinoid species are gonochoric (although some individuals may present hermaphroditism), and they probably do not reproduce asexually.
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www.novelguide.com/a/discover/grze_01/grze_01_00052.htm...
www.novelguide.com/a/discover/grze_01/grze_01_00052.html
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Echinodermata Sea Stars Feather Stars Sea Urchins Phuket coral reef ecology guide - Thailand Similan Burma fishes, cnidarians, sponges & marine worms, crustaceans, molluscs, echinoderms and reptiles ... The phylum Echinodermata consists of 5 main classes – sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers and feather stars.
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www.diveasia.com/reef-guide/echinoderms.htm
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It is true that the approximately 80 extant species of stalked crinoids are chiefly restricted to depths greater than 200 m (the shallowest occurs in 100 m). However, 85% of extant crinoids (approximately 540 named species) are unstalked feather stars, or comatulids, the products of a continuing post-Paleozoic...
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tolweb.org/tree?group=Crinoidea&contgroup=Echinodermata
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Mladenov, P.V., and Chia, F.S. (1983) Development, settling behavior, metamorphosis and pentacrinoid feeding and growth of the feather star Florometra serratissima. Marine Biology 73:319-323. ... Class Crinoidea feather stars and sea lillies...
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animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/informatio...
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Crinoidea.html
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Feather Stars look a bit like some of the brittle stars, especially those that also lift their arms into the water to feed on suspended material. However, they are easy to tell apart: brittle stars have only five arms, not ten, and are not attached by cirri.
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www.glaucus.org.uk/Feather.htm
www.glaucus.org.uk/Feather.htm
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