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pl23_nur01504.jpg

A dense bed of brittle stars can get their food from the water or bottom

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Description

A dense bed of brittle stars can get their food from the water or bottom.Ophiura sarsii.

Credit

OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP); University of South Carolina

Photographer

S. Stancyk

Display Date

1991 August

Location

Temperate Atlantic Ocean, offshore Cape Hatteras.