Science Art: Lamprometra protectus, ventral view of a specimen with 23 arms from Stat. 125., 1918

scientific illustration - a photo, really - of an unstalked crinoid, a kind of marine animal related to a starfish
scientific illustration - a photo, really - of an unstalked crinoid, a kind of marine animal related to a starfish

scientific illustration - a photo, really - of an unstalked crinoid, a kind of marine animal related to a starfish
This is a crinoid, a cousin to sea urchins, sea cucumbers and starfish. I suppose some of them have stalks like sea anemones, but these ones don’t! The image is from The Unstalked Crinoids of the Siboga Expedition gallery in the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Flickr account, which is all taken from this book of the same name.