Even the free-swimming feather stars sometimes go through this stage, with the adult eventually breaking away from the stalk.
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After metamorphosis the stalk remains intact at first but later breaks and the juvenile feather star can move around independently.
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This feather star is often clinged to gorgonians, exposed their open arms to the marine flow to optimise the nutriment capture.
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""'Crotalocrinites " "', also known as the feather star, is a genus of extinct sea lily belonging to the family Crotalocrinitidae.
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In most living species, especially the free-swimming feather stars, the arms branch several times, producing up to two hundred branches in total.
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She is also given two cats from Feather Star, Posi and Nega, who are to watch over her while she has magical powers.
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The Echinodermata are radially symmetric and exclusively marine, including starfish ( Asteroidea ), sea urchins, ( Echinoidea ), brittle stars ( Ophiuroidea ), feather stars ( Crinoidea ).
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Also the Doliolaria of the Pelmatozoa ( sea-lilies and feather stars ) can be attributed to the same basic pattern, even if they do not have a mouth opening.
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During the development of comatulid crinoids ( feather stars ), the stalk is lost apart from its topmost segment which remains attached to the calyx ( central disc ).
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The Coral Reef Exhibit has 130 coral species and 120 fish species along with hundreds of species of sea stars, sea cucumbers, brittle stars, feather stars, snails, worms and sponges.