brittle star

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The find by the Hollingworths, a husband-and-wife team, includes three new species and an entire ecosystem of echinoderms — a group of animals that includes starfish, brittle stars, feather stars, sea lilies, sea cucumbers and echinoids.

From New York Times

The scans revealed the brittle star’s arm plates, which join together in a chain to form their internal skeleton; each had a pair of holes, a nerve hole and a muscle attachment hole.

From New York Times

On the seabeds surrounding South Georgia, scientists have found abundant communities of brittle stars, urchins, worms, and sponges.

From National Geographic

Geraint Tarling, an ecologist at the British Antarctic Survey, said the iceberg will “cause devastation to the sea floor by scouring the seabed communities of sponges, brittle stars, worms and sea-urchins, so decreasing biodiversity.”

From Seattle Times

They tested this by placing the brittle stars in the center of arenas surrounded by walls with black bars on one side to simulate shelter.

From Scientific American