Elegant Feather Star

Tropiometra carinata

• Group: Other

The elegant feather star perches among coral in water shallower than about 30 metres, tucking itself away by day and spreading its feathery arms to feed when the light fades. It grips the bottom with clawlike legs and filters plankton from passing currents.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Echinodermata › Crinoidea › Comatulida › Tropiometridae › Tropiometra

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 213331.