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Crinoidea
Feather stars are echinoderms with many arms and a mouth at their centre. They wave the arms around, which have small "feelers" on them (giving the arms the appearance of feathers, hence the name) that catch particles in floating in the water. The arms then bring this food to the mouth.
Unsure about the species of this one. Found some photos with similar feather star in it, but no mention of even a genus! Help would be lovely
Spotted on Jul 15, 2011
Submitted on Jul 15, 2011
8 Comments
Well done with your diving photos - stay safe!
Oh, Christiane... very interesting pic of a feather star there! Looks like its extruded its stomach or something!!
Thanks all! Mick, I was diving on an island called Hoga in the Wakatobi National Park! It's a little set of islands in Sulawesi, Indonesia :)
beautiful
Absolutely gorgeous! Where were you approx?
lovely!
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/590..... I must say.. they look more beautiful in their environment!
Thanks for all the spottings and the information given by you. I have marked that without the information the spotting is incomplete.