Field Guide     ECHINODERMATA  

Underwater Field Guide to Ross Island & McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

ECHINODERMATA : Other
urchins, brittle stars, sea cucumbers, crinoids

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heart urchin
Abatus
sp.

pencil urchin
Ctenocidaris perrieri

sea urchin
Sterechinus neumayeri



brittle star
Astrotoma agassizii

brittle star
Ophiacantha antarctica

brittle star
Ophionotus victoriae

brittle star Ophiurolepis sp.,
probably Ophiurolepis gelida

brittle star
Ophiosparte gigas



sea cucumber Cucumariidae sp.,
possibly Staurocucumis liouvillei

sea cucumber
Staurocucumis turqueti

sea cucumber
Bathyplotes bongraini

sea cucumber
Cucumaria spp.

sea cucumber
possibly Echinopsolus acanthocola

sea cucumber
Heterocucumis steineni

sea cucumber
group Aspidochirotida

crinoid Promachocrinus kerguelensis


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