Large red sea urchin with long spines that somehow managed to climb skimpy coral bush

Small white starfish and red- and white- banded shrimp on rock face.

Debris ball sea urchin? Long pencil like spines emanating from ball indicate urchin as the underlying creature.

Brittle star legs at the entrance to a burrow

Brittle star on a white octocoral

Weird sea urchin with very long thin spines? or perhaps a white spherical dandelion siphonophore anchored just off the bottom .

Large urchin half way up a coral stalk.

Pink spherical sea urchin with long spines.

gray encrusting sponge to left, and two different types of brittle stars. Note the alternate red and white banding on the smaller brittle star.

A seemingly amorphous starfish

Closeup of red heart urchin

Red heart urchin

White starfish on a sand substrate

Whitish-orange starfish

Large orange starfish

Long-legged brittle star

Brittle star beneath translucent sea squirt+

Pink brittle star on a sand and mud bottom

Brittle stars and sea whips on a vertical rock face

Thick fat somewhat amorphous reddish purple starfish

Large sea urchin plowing up the seafloor. Trail extends from near bottom left to location of urchin

Closeup of large sea urchin on seafloor.

Pinkish orange starfish on sandy muddy bottom.

Pencil urchin with serrated arms

Pencil urchin at base of sponge

Thicklegged orange and white brittle star on pebbly bottom

Spectacular red adn green banded sea urchin

A stunning 10-armed sea star. Image captured by the Little Hercules at 271 meters depth on a site referred to as 'Zona Senja".

A stunning 10-armed sea star. Image captured by the Little Hercules at 271 meters depth on a site referred to as 'Zona Senja".

A yellow brittle star crawling over rocks and pebbles

A yellow brittle star crawling over rocks and pebbles

A pink brittle star on a pebble substrate

Urchins, crinoids, a brisingid starfish and a variety of other creatures on a rock ledge.

Orange brittle star on rock surface with small white "black coral"

Large orange starfish with small bottlebrush coral and large whip coral

Large orange starfish with small pink brittle star and pink coral

Yellow crinoid with gorgoncephalus basket star

White-legged brittle star with pink central disk

Orange stalked sponge with a red shrimp

Closeup of orange stalked spong with small red shrimp

Sponge with isopods

Orange stalked sponge

Two sponges and a bamboo coral near a logfall

Stalked white sponge with near right angle bend in stalk growing from rock substrate

White sponges growing from pebble and sand substrate

Stalked white sponge

Stalked white sponge

Large white glass sponge with yellow crinoid to right and white hydroid.

Stalked hydroid? Tubularia sp.?

This closeup could almost pass for a flower in your garden, but appears to be a sponge - probably a "carnivorous sponge" of the cladorhizids. Image captured by the Little Hercules camera at about 1000 meters depth.