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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.
Category
Voyage to Inner Space
National Undersea Research Program (NURP) Collection
Sea Life
Seafloor Invertebrates