Facts: The Feather Star

Quick facts about this free swimming and graceful Crinoid! The feather star (Crinoidea, Crinoid, feather starfish). Feather star facts!

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References and Helpful Links
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2017/08/feather-stars/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0031030112080084
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25065346
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/08/feather-stars-winners-coral-reef-animals/

Australian Echinoderms: Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Edited by Timothy O'Hara, Maria Byrne

Guide to Marine Life: Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida
By Marty Snyderman, Clay Wiseman

Sponges and Other Minor Phyla
By Sally Morgan

Biology of Echinodermata
By D.R. Khanna

Ocean: The World’s Last Wilderness Revealed
By American Museum of Natural History
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Images Licensed Under Creative Commons/Public Domain
By JohnnyAceIsAce - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31913706
By William I. Ausich - http://www.tolweb.org/Crinoidea/19232, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37125636
By Seascapeza - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28342989
By Alexander Vasenin - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24925485
By NOAA Photo Library - Flickr: expl5409, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32511819
By Ria Tan from singapore - Red feather star (Himerometra robustipinna), CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38080913
By Eric Gaba (Sting - fr:Sting) - Own workCoast lines : U.S. NGDC World Coast Line ;Reference for the limits of the Indo-Pacific biogeographic region : Spalding, Mark D., Helen E. Fox, Gerald R. Allen, Nick Davidson et al. "Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas". Bioscience Vol. 57 No. 7, July/August 2007, pp. 573-583, available through the World Wildlife Fund's site, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4112753
Elias Levy on Flickr https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

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