#Basket Star

[i-give-you-a-fish]

Can I have an echinoderm?

Nature’s Halloween decorations

You get a Basket Star

Astrocladus euryale

[indeedgoodman]

Basket Star.

[marinebioblr]

A true alien of the reef! This is a particularly large basket star, likely Astrophyton muricatum, with all its delicate branching appendages outstretched to feed! Unlike other sea stars that are surprisingly active predators, basket stars rely on their dense thicket of arms to trap organic particles and plankton that are carried near.

[wikipediapictures]

Basket star

[critter-creature-or-beast]

Trick or treat!

Happy Halloween! I hope you like your naked basket star!

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[fishyy-stims]

Basket seastar | source

[feralfennecfox]

Some of my fave critters I saw at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. You can pet the isopods! They're so smooth!

For @angelnumber27 and everyone else who wanted me to take photos on my recent California vacation <3 (Sorry I couldn't get photos of the otters, none of my pictures of them turned out...)

[rotten-milk-and-honey]

I got really bored and made a bingo based on my interests if anyone is interested in doing it :3

if nothing else please dm it to me because I love seeing other people's responses <33333

also if you are confused about what something is just check the tags :3

[natureisthegreatestartist]

What's this? A basket star found in Depoe Bay, Oregon. Bizarre and beautiful!

[pad-wubbo]

Bloodybelly version of my earlier comb jelly sketch (edited in Infinite Painter.)

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[bjekkergauken]

Norweigan reef mermaid

[5-pounds-of-carrots]

frankly obsessed w deep sea creatures that look like eldrich horrors

[wikipediapictures]

Astroboa nuda

“Close-up of basket star (Astroboa nuda) arm fragment in the Red Sea. One can see some smallest tentacles of the star are beginning to curl up because of the presence of a photographer.” - via Wikimedia Commons

[crittercountry00]

Medusa dropped her wig

Basket Starfish

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[grainelevator]