feather star
Comatulida latin

Such feather stars are very numerous in some reef habitats today.

Feather stars arrange themselves so the fan faces the flow of the current.

The feather stars have been much more successful.

Feather stars are dioecious, each individual being either male or female.

Along the way, she also meets past residents of Feather Star and supernatural beings.

The free-living 'feather stars' in shallow water are quite successful today.

The worm larvae are caught by the tube feet of the feather star and treated like food particles.

Usually, feather stars creep about by using projections at the bottom of the crown, called cirri.

Some feather stars and sea cucumbers can swim.

As well as crawling around, this feather star can swim short distances by flapping its arms.

Feather stars can swim by undulating their many arms [1].

Even the free-swimming feather stars sometimes go through this stage, with the adult eventually breaking away from the stalk.

The free-living feather stars first appear in the Upper Triassic.

The variable bushy feather star is found in shallow waters in the western Pacific.

After metamorphosis the stalk remains intact at first but later breaks and the juvenile feather star can move around independently.

The larvae of this feather star swim freely with plankton for a few weeks, then they settle down growing into a stalked form.

Bennett's feather star inhabits exposed coral heads with strong currents, at a depth of 0 - 50 m.

In most living species, especially the free-swimming feather stars, the arms branch several times, producing up to two hundred branches in total.

These feather stars were stationary intermediate-level organisms feeding on suspension epifauna.

Divers can often peer as far as 80 feet through the clear waters at soft pink corals, feather stars and sea fans.

Feather stars or comatulids refer to the unstalked forms.

The variable bushy feather star generally keeps its body concealed in a crevice and the only visible part is its array of arms.

They have two forms, the sea lilies, stalked forms attached to the sea floor, and the feather stars, which are free-living.

Members of this order are known as feather stars and, unlike the majority of crinoids, do not have a stalk as adults.

Iocrinus is an extinct genus of crinoid (sea lilies and feather stars).

Comatulida is an order of crinoids.

A study published in 2011 suggested that it should be renamed Bourgueticrinina and viewed as a suborder of Comatulida.

The World Register of Marine Species includes the following suborders, superfamilies and families in Comatulida:

Bourgueticrinida has traditionally been viewed as an order of Articulata and a sister taxon to the order Comatulida, the feather stars.