Crinoid Feather Stars (Oxycomanthus bennetti), using a Barrel Sponge (Xestospongia testudinaria) as a feeding platform. A typical reef scene that can be found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather Stars (Oxycomanthus bennetti), using a Barrel Sponge (Xestospongia testudinaria) as a feeding platform. A typical reef scene that can be found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather Star (Oxycomanthus bennetti), using a clump of coral as a feeding platform. A typical reef scene that can be found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather Stars (Oxycomanthus bennetti), using a Barrel Sponge (Xestospongia testudinaria) as a feeding platform. A typical reef scene that can be found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather Stars (Oxycomanthus bennetti), using a Barrel Sponge (Xestospongia testudinaria) as a feeding platform. A typical reef scene that can be found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather Stars (Oxycomanthus bennetti), using a Barrel Sponge (Xestospongia testudinaria) as a feeding platform. A typical reef scene that can be found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather Stars (Oxycomanthus bennetti), using a Barrel Sponge (Xestospongia testudinaria) as a feeding platform. A typical reef scene that can be found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather Stars (Oxycomanthus bennetti), using a Barrel Sponge (Xestospongia testudinaria) as a feeding platform. A typical reef scene that can be found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather Stars (Oxycomanthus bennetti), using a Barrel Sponge (Xestospongia testudinaria) as a feeding platform. A typical reef scene that can be found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather Stars (Oxycomanthus bennetti), using a Barrel Sponge (Xestospongia testudinaria) as a feeding platform. A typical reef scene that can be found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather Stars (Oxycomanthus bennetti), using a Barrel Sponge (Xestospongia testudinaria) as a feeding platform. A typical reef scene that can be found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather Star (Petasometra sp.). Found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather Stars (Oxycomanthus bennetti), using a Barrel Sponge (Xestospongia testudinaria) as a feeding platform. A typical reef scene that can be found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather Stars (Oxycomanthus bennetti), using a Barrel Sponge (Xestospongia testudinaria) as a feeding platform. A typical reef scene that can be found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather Star (Petasometra sp.). Found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather Stars (Oxycomanthus bennetti), using a Barrel Sponge (Xestospongia testudinaria) as a feeding platform. A typical reef scene that can be found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather Stars (Oxycomanthus bennetti), using a Barrel Sponge (Xestospongia testudinaria) as a feeding platform. A typical reef scene that can be found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather Stars (Oxycomanthus bennetti), using a Barrel Sponge (Xestospongia testudinaria) as a feeding platform. A typical reef scene that can be found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather Star (Oxycomanthus sp.), showing detail of claw-like hold-fasts, used for gripping to the reef. Found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Underwater photographer exploring and photographing Feather Stars (Possibly: Comantheria sp.). Also known as Crinoid. Photo taken at Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australia. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Underwater photographer exploring and photographing Feather Stars (Possibly: Comantheria sp.). Also known as Crinoid. Photo taken at Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australia. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Underwater photographer exploring and photographing Feather Stars (Possibly: Comantheria sp.). Also known as Crinoid. Photo taken at Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australia. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Underwater photographer exploring and photographing Feather Stars (Possibly: Comantheria sp.). Also known as Crinoid. Photo taken at Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australia. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Feather Star (Possibly: Comantheria sp.). Also known as Crinoid. Phoito taken at Christmas Islans, Indian Ocean, Australia. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather stars (Cenolia trichoptera). Found from Fremantle, WA, to Byron Bay, NSW, and around Tas. Photo taken off Bicheno, Tasmania, Australia. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather Star (Oxycomanthus bennetti), using a Barrel Sponge (Xestospongia testudinaria) as a feeding platform. A typical reef scene that can be found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather Star (possibly: Petasometra sp.). Found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
A cluster of Crinoid Feather Stars (Oxycomanthus bennetti), using a coral head as a feeding platform. A typical reef scene that can be found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Feather Star (Possibly: Oxycomanthus sp.). Photo taken in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
A variety of Crinoid Feather Stars using a Barrel Sponge, (Xestospongia testudinaria), as a feeding platform. A typical reef scene that can be found throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid or Feather Star (Oxycomanthus sp.) perched on a reef and feeding with arms extended. Photo taken in Komodo National Park, Indonesia © Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com
One-stripe Featherstar Clingfish (Discotrema sp). Secretly lives in yellow and orange featherstars. Only found in Indonesia and the Great Barrier Reef, Australia © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Diver obseving a Broadclub Cuttlefish (Sepia latimanus) on a coral reef. Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Gorgonian Fan Coral covered in Crinoid Feather Stars and encrusting Sponge. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Colourful tropical reef scene, comprising of Crinoid Feather Stars, Soft Corals, a single Pacific Diana's Wrasse and masses of schooling Basslets. A typical reef scene found throughout the Indo-Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Colourful tropical reef scene, comprising of Crinoid Feather Stars, Soft Corals and a single Pacific Diana's Wrasse. A typical reef scene found throughout the Indo-Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Colourful tropical reef scene, comprising of Crinoid Feather Stars, Soft Corals, a single Pacific Diana's Wrasse and masses of schooling Basslets. A typical reef scene found throughout the Indo-Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Colourful tropical reef scene, comprising of Crinoid Feather Stars, Soft Corals, a single Pacific Diana's Wrasse and masses of schooling Basslets. A typical reef scene found throughout the Indo-Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Colourful tropical reef scene, comprising of Crinoid Feather Stars, Soft Corals, a single Pacific Diana's Wrasse and masses of schooling Basslets. A typical reef scene found throughout the Indo-Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Colourful tropical reef scene, comprising of Crinoid Feather Stars, Soft Corals, a pair of Pacific Diana's Wrasse and masses of schooling Basslets. A typical reef scene found throughout the Indo-Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Colourful tropical reef scene, comprising of Crinoid Feather Stars, Soft Corals, a single Pacific Diana's Wrasse and masses of schooling Basslets. A typical reef scene found throughout the Indo-Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
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