this very unique creature is a basket starfish and yep - all that except for the verical soft coral colony is one animal. A member of the starfish family it is strictly nocturnal and looks like a gob of worms in the daytime. A night it stretches out those incredible arms to feed on microscopic plankton. It is extremely light sensitive and can move very quickly and for all those reasons quite difficult to photograph. Enjoy!
5 Comments
David Linehan 05 Oct 2006
nice work. very rare shotBluemoonshadow 04 Oct 2006
What a neat looking creature.... Great capture, Rick~!!Loredana 04 Oct 2006
I LOVE THESE THEY ARE SO AWESOME LOOKING WONDERFUL RICKTanya Ray 04 Oct 2006
This is a great capture Rick!! Thank you for sharing!Renata Cavanaugh 04 Oct 2006
Wow that is just amazing....excellent work Rick