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Crinoid

Class Crinoidea

Description:

Crinoid with all of its feeding arms tucked in. The tube feet are covered with a sticky mucus that traps any food that floats past. Once they have caught a particle of food, the tube feet can flick it into the ambulacral groove, where the cilia are able to propel the stream of mucus towards the mouth.



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4 Comments

tibiprada
tibiprada 11 months ago

Awesome job !

williefromwi
williefromwi 11 months ago

beautiful spotting, wonderful information on how it feeds.

Sachin Zaveri
Sachin Zaveri a year ago

Interesting,

That's a cool animal!

Biliran, Philippines

Lat: 11.34, Long: 124.12

Spotted on Jan 30, 2012
Submitted on Feb 2, 2012

Reference

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