Starfish ID hehe
Submitted by tailor marc on Mon, 2009-05-25 12:26
Caught this crawly starfish at eshed, anyone know what type it is? Crawled like a spider!
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Ewan
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Brittle star
Yeah mate, its a kind of brittle star...they can be all kinds of whacked-out colours and designs...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittle_star
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Ewan
tailor marc
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Cool cheers "Ophiuroidea
Cool cheers
"Ophiuroidea contains two large clades, Ophiurida (brittle stars) and Euryalida (basket stars). Many of the ophiuroids are rarely encountered in the relatively shallow depths normally visited by humans, but they are a diverse group.
There are some 1,500 species of brittle stars living today, and they are largely found in deep waters more than 500 metres (1,650 feet) down"
Fluked another rare find ;)
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wopjrb
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might have fallen off a ship
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crasny1
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Its a
Octupus with 3 legs and a head missing. He He
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tailor marc
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Yeah i was thinkin it might
Yeah i was thinkin it might have come in on a ships ballast
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