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Sea lilies and feather stars stand upright in the water current and extend their branches so that their food grooves can catch plankton. Feather stars usually live in clumps, attaching themselves to crevices and other places in which they can hide most of their body.
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animals.jrank.org/pages/1595/Sea-Lilies-Feather-Stars-C...
animals.jrank.org/pages/1595/Sea-Lilies-Feather-Stars-Crinoidea-BEHAVIOR-REPRODUCTION.html
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Feather stars and sea lilies (Crinoidea). ... Feather stars also known as crinoids. They are characterized by radial symmetry. The body of a typical feather star is cup-shaped, their numerous feathery arms project from a central disc. Some have five arms, ... Numerous animals live in close association with feather stars.
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www.starfish.ch/reef/echinoderms.html
www.starfish.ch/reef/echinoderms.html
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more reef live environment on this one you can see more feather stars, here visited by a small group of orange anthias and a Gorgonia ventalina - flat coral that seems like tree branches ; yes, too much blue...
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www.fotothing.com/azul/photo/b6c457998c35cfae172c1591ab...
www.fotothing.com/azul/photo/b6c457998c35cfae172c1591ab8d3b66/
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Feather Stars - Fragile Beauty ... They have a long tubular proboscis, and live by straddling a food-groove and slurping up the collected goodies coming past on the ciliary-mucous conveyor belt. In nature, one seldom finds more than one or two of these on a feather star, and they probably do not harm the host much.
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www.reefs.org/library/aquarium_net/1296/1296_9.html
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Sea lilies and feather stars. . . ... At the top of the page is a living specimen of a comatulid - an unstalked crinoid, or "feather star." It superficially resembles a starfish, but the mouth faces up, and the comatulid crawls by "walking" on specialized structures called cirri.
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www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/echinodermata/crinoidea.html
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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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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. ... Where do they live?
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www.reef.edu.au/asp_pages/secb.asp?FormNo=44
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