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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