brittle star

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• Scientists at this week's sessions will hear about the discovery of what the researchers call a brittle star city off the coast of New Zealand. - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community
• Beneath loosely embedded rocks hide the brittle stars, ribbon worms and slithery, clinging fish called blennies.
• Shrimp, anemones, and brittle stars dominate, but their numbers are few, their biomass small.
• However, their arms are very highly forked and branched, and even more flexible than those of brittle stars.
• But I was tired and couldn't be sure I actually recalled stampeding giraffes, falling heliotropes, bloodstone storms, an old child with no eyes, wrapped in waves; I couldn't; and you had dropped like a minnow of a brittle star into my flat trap of a lap, my darling sour ancient fish. Minnows
• You can find urchins and starfish on the rocky ledges and brittle stars and edible crabs on the sandy bottom.
• Subsequently work on a brittle star showed expression of the gene in the tube feet, and many found it difficult to equate the tube feet of echinoderms with the parapodia of polychaetes or the arthropod limb.
• The starfish along with sea urchins and relatives including feather stars, brittle stars, basket stars, sea daisies, sea lilies, and sea cucumbers make up the Phylum Echinodermata.
• Shrimp, anemones, and brittle stars dominate, but their numbers are few, their biomass small.
• Animals examined as part of the study include deep-ocean sea cucumbers, urchins and brittle stars.