Featherstar montage. Composite image of a featherstar, or crionoid, showing its branching structure. Featherstars, feed by filtering food particles fr

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Featherstar montage. Composite image of a featherstar, or crionoid, showing its branching structure. Featherstars, feed by filtering food particles from the water using their feathery arms, the hairs of which pass food to a central mouth. They inhabit shallow and deep waters across the world's oceans.

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Size: 5260px × 3489px
Photo credit: © GEORGETTE DOUWMA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: animal, aquatic, biological, biology, branching, close-, crinoid, crinoidea, detail, echinoderm, echinodermata, echinoderms, fauna, feather, feather-star, featherstar, invertebrate, invertebrates, life, lily, marine, nature, ocean, sea, sea-lily, sealily, star, structure, tropical, tropics, underwater, water, wildlife, zoological, zoology