Crinoidea Echinodermata Animalia Flora and Fauna
The Crinoids include about 625 living species of sea lilies and feather stars. Some have stalks and wave their feathery arms to catch fragments and work them towards their mouths with their tube feet and cilia. The feather stars walk on the tips of their arms, or swim by moving their arms alternately so that half are up and half down at any one time.
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See Also:
- Crinoid Creatures - Spectacular photographs and a brief article about modern crinoids.
- Promachocrinus kerguelensis - Photographs and information on this crinoid found in Antarctic waters.
- Comactinia echinoptera - Exercise from Invertebrate Anatomy OnLine covering the systematics and external anatomy of this feather star.
- Crinoidea - Extensive article about modern and ancient crinoids by echinodermata William I. animalia Ausich and Charles G. Messing for echinodermata the Tree of Life animalia project.
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