BASKET STAR 4
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realmonstrosities.com
interesting website
Basket Star
What on Earth is going on here? There must be a million creatures in there! Or at least one of those crazy corals that are actually composed of millions of creatures.
Nope. This is one, solitary Basket Star. She looks hungry!
oceanfootage.com
Basket Star (Gorgonocephalus Caputomedusae) On Soft Coral (Paramuricea Placomus)
Description: Basket Star (Gorgonocephalus Caputomedusae) On Soft Coral (Paramuricea Placomus)
Location: Deep Sea, Temperate, Norwegian Fjords, Europe, North Atlantic Ocean
Source: HDCam 1080i50
Master: HD Digital File 1080i50
wildshores.blogspot.be
interesting website
18 February 2010
Awesome Ophiuroids: Brittle star talk at St. John's Island
We're here for the talk about brittle stars by Dr. Toshihiko Fujita of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo. He's here to review our brittle stars and is hosted by the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research and TMSI.
oceanfootage.com
Basket Star Traveling Across Sea-Bottom
Location: Deep Sea
Source: DV 3-Chip NTSC 4:3
Master: SD Digital File NTSC 4:3
int-res.com
scientific paper / pdf
Partners for life: a brittle star and its octocoral host
ABSTRACT: Throughout the New England and Corner Rise seamounts of the western North Atlantic
Ocean, several ophiuroid species are conspicuously epizoic on octocorals. One species, Ophiocreas
oedipus, was found only on the chrysogorgiid octocoral Metallogorgia melanotrichos. Colonies of
M. melanotrichos were collected from 11 seamounts during expeditions in 2003, 2004, and 2005 at
depths between 1300 and 2200 m. O. oedipus is obligately associated with M. melanotrichos, leading
a solitary existence on all octocorals observed. Evidence suggests that a young brittle star settles
directly on a young octocoral and the 2 species then grow, mature, and senesce together. The brittle
star benefits directly by being above the bottom for suspension feeding and is passively protected by
the octocoral, but the latter, as far as we have been able to determine, seems neither to benefit nor be
disadvantaged by the relationship.