#ophiuroidea

[andrenaflavipes]

Last time i could walk on the beach - it was cold and windy and we didn't see much, but there are always brittle stars for those with eyes to see.

(Ophiura ophiura)

3.ii.2024

[snototter]

A basket star (Gorgonocephalus arcticus) in the White Sea, Russia

by Alexander Semenov

[fungusqueen]

Look at this tiny Brittle star crawling on Giant Kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera). I woke up before sunrise to catch this low tide last week

[patheticmosasaur1]

today's invertebrate................ophiomaza cacaotica

she's very very rich. so rich infact that she was able to write a biography of her whole life ten times! and each time it made millions of dollars because she kept buying it and selling it over and over until the concept of money meant nothing at all!

but how was she able to make all of this money????? by climbing on crinoids and telling them that a great calamity is coming that can only be stopped if they give her enough money to prevent it from happening of course

glorpiness rating: great business tips 🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🪸🐞🐞🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸

photographs by Ria Tan (1, 2, 3). (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0), (CC BY-SA 2.0) and (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) respectively

[your-nightmare-worst-nightmare]

[wikipediapictures]

Basket star

“Basket star on sea fan, taken at the dive site Fan Reef, also known as Fantastic Reef, a small offshore rocky reef in the Castle Rocks area on the False Bay coast of the Cape Peninsula, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.” - via Wikimedia Commons

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Echinoderms

Articulata. This class is made up of sea lilies, which have a stalk an attach themselves to substrate in their adult forms, and feather stars, which are free-moving. They feed using arms with feathery pinnules.

Ophiuroidea. This class of starfish-like echoniderms, known as the brittle stars, has long slender whip-like arms

Which clade of animals is better?

Articulata

Ophiuroidea

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Voting ended onJan 25, 2024

[wildlifetracker]

Brittle sea stars, class Ophiuroidea, at Monterey Bay Aquarium