A dense bed of brittle stars can get their food from the water or bottom. Ophiura sarsii.

Image ID: nur01504, Voyage To Inner Space - Exploring the Seas With NOAA Collect
Location: Temperate Atlantic Ocean, offshore Cape Hatteras.
Photo Date: 1991 August
Photographer: S. Stancyk
Credit: OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP); University of South Carolina

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