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	Echinoderms (starfish, brittle star, sea urchin, feather star, sea cucumber)
		Serpent stars feed mostly on small invertebrates like mollusks, worms and crustaceans and are generally found in crevices and beneath rocks or in holes in the sand.
		Snake stars (for example Ophiothela danae) are found entwined in the branches of fl corals or gorgonians where they feed on the rich mucus of their host, in turn performing cleaning functions.
		Brittle stars are the most active and fastest moving echinoderms.
	www.starfish.ch /reef/echinoderms.html (2463 words)

	The Brittle Star
		Brittle stars are one of the most fascinating scavengers found in reef tanks.
		Usually a member of the "clean up crew," brittle stars reside in live rock and consume detritus, catching food as it is carried on the current.
		Brittle stars are reef safe and make a good contribution to almost any system.
	joshday.com /brittlestar.htm (249 words)

	Wet and Salty: Brittle Star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Brittle stars are echinoderms, which means that they're related to starfish (or more accurately, sea stars.) They have pentamerous radial symmetry, which means that they have 5 arms arranged around a central disk.
		Unlike their somewhat passive cousins the sea stars, brittle stars are relatively fast, and their thin, whip-like arms tend to writhe independently of each other when the animal is disturbed.
		Closely related to brittle stars, basket stars (which have long tangled arms, hence the name) are also Ophiuroids.
	techhouse.brown.edu /~spg/brittle.html (146 words)

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		Hill Larc 363 April 18, 2005 Common Name: Brittle Star Phylum: Echinoderm Class: Ophiuroidea Genus and Species: Amphipholis squamata Brittle Stars are related to sand dollars, sea stars, sea cucumbers, and sea urchins and “are the most active and fastest moving echinoderms” 1.
		Brittle Stars are carnivorous detrivores that dine largely on plankton, supplemented with organic matter on hard surfaces and occasionally small animals such as muscles and worms1.
		Occasionally brittle stars have been known to prey on other brittle stars for their stomach contents if food is scarce.10 High energy waves can do as much or more damage to a population than predators can.
	faculty.washington.edu /kzhill/363_05/brittlestar.doc (1136 words)

	Brittle star - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brittle stars are echinoderms, closely related to sea stars.
		However brittle stars are also common, if cryptic, members of reef communities, where they hide under rocks and even within other living organisms.
		Brittle stars move fairly rapidly by wriggling their arms which are highly flexible and enable the animals to make either snake-like or rowing movements.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brittle_star (764 words)

	Monterey Bay Aquarium: Online Field Guide
		Those aren't worms, they're brittle stars, sea star cousins that bury themselves for protection.
		Fortunately, a star can't be tugged out by the arm.
		Brittle stars live in an incredible range of water depths—from the shoreline down to 6,755 feet (2,059 m).
	www.mbayaq.org /efc/living_species/default.asp?hOri=1&inhab=142 (211 words)

	BIOMES: SHORT-SPINE BRITTLE STAR INFO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		On brittle stars the sieve plate is on the underside of the disk.
		Brittle stars are scavengers or predators on small worms and crustaceans.
		Brittle stars do not evert their stomachs as sea stars do, so can only eat organisms small enough to fit into the mouth.
	www.biomescenter.com /shspinebrittle_learn.htm (651 words)

	Australian Museum - Wild Kids - Rock pools and rock platforms - Brittle Star
		Brittle Stars can grow new arms if their arms are broken off.
		Brittle Stars can be found at the shoreline but also deep in the ocean.
		Brittle Stars move across rocks with their flexible arms.
	www.amonline.net.au /wild_kids/seashores/brittlestar.htm (159 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for brittle
		brittle star (serpent star) Marine echinoderm with a small central disc body and up to 20 (though typically five) long, sinuous arms; these break off easily and are replaced by regeneration.
		Brittle to ductile: fracture toughness mapping on controlled epoxy networks.
		Brittle nail syndrome: treatment options and the role of the nurse.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=brittle (670 words)

	SOLNHOFEN BRITTLE STAR
		One of the brittle stars is above this border and one is below.
		Brittle stars are a type of starfish that are uniquely classified in their own group called OPHIUROIDEA.
		Brittle stars lack the bulk and thickness of the asteroids and are lightly armored.
	www.paleodirect.com /sf005.htm (725 words)

	Brittle Star- Enchanted Learning Software
		The brittle star (also called the serpent star) is a spiny, hard-skinned, long-armed animal that lives on the rocky sea floor, from shallow waters to great depths.
		Brittle stars are NOT fish, but are related to sea stars.
		Anatomy: Most brittle stars have five (or a multiple of five) long, thin, spiny arms that radiate from a flat central disk; the arms do not touch each other at their bases.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/invertebrates/echinoderm/Brittlestar.shtml (303 words)

	Brittle Stars
		Brittle stars are in the phylum echinodermata and in the same class (Ophiuroidea) of the Basket Star,.
		Brittle stars have a central disc like body with 5 arms coming out of the disc.
		Brittle Stars have the power to regenerate a missing limb, so if attacked they will readily sacrifice an arm to a predator as they can always grow a new one!
	www.abyss.com.au /brittle.html (354 words)

	Brittle Star Found Covered With Optically Advanced "Eyes"
		Summary Researchers have found a species of brittle star whose skeleton is coated with eye-like lenses superior to those manufactured in labs.
		Scientists have discovered a species of brittle star whose outer skeleton is covered with crystalline lenses that appear to work collectively as an all-seeing eye.
		Brittle stars are sea creatures that have long, thin arms emanating from a small disk-shaped body.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2001/08/0822_starfisheyes.html (501 words)

	The Ophiuroidea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ophiuroids are a large group (over 1600 species) of echinoderms that includes the brittle stars (Ophiurida) and basket stars (Euryalida).
		However, brittle stars have long, flexible arms (hence the other common name for ophiuroids, "snake stars" and a central, armored, disk-shaped body that is clearly demarcated from the arms.
		Ophiuroids are not common fossils; as you might expect from the name "brittle star", ophiuroids rapidly fall to pieces after death, and are rarely preserved whole.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /echinodermata/ophiuroidea.html (486 words)

	GREEN BRITTLE STAR VS SNOWFLAKE! - The Reef Tank
		As soon as I put the tongs in with a piece of scallop, shrimp or clam the green brittle star heads right for the opening underneath the large LR where the snowflake makes its home and the battle is on.
		The snowflake comes out and is ready for feeding time and the green brittle star likes to put one of his extensions right across the hole so it can grab the food if given the opportunity.
		I tried luring the green brittle star away from the hole to the other side of the reef but it will have nothing to do with that move.
	www.thereeftank.com /forums/showthread.php?t=3116 (545 words)

	WowEssays.com - Brittle Star
		Their disc is covered with thick granules, which obscure the radial shields, the disc margin is almost straight between the arms, and the arm spines are short.
		Bat stars range in a variety of colors from whitish to yellow or orange, red, purple – brown.
		The Bat star is almost always accompanied by a small commensal worm (Ophiodromus pugettensis), which lives in the ambulacral grooves of its host.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/af2/rsk53.shtml (1395 words)

	BrittleStarFAQS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		One is a Banded Serpent Star (Ophiolepis superba) and one is normal brittle star (Ophiocoma sp).
		I have heard that green brittle's are bad news, and maybe I should remove both of them and donate to my LFS for maybe smaller brittles (non green).
		I have a green brittle star that i just recently purchased...his legs are starting to fall off...first they are turning pink and then the spines are falling off and then his leg falls off.
	www.wetwebmedia.com /brittlestarfaqs.htm (6344 words)

	Augsburg College: Aquaria: Brittle Star
		This large orange-red brittle star resting temporarily atop the open brain coral spends most of its time hiding in the shadows.
		Brittle stars can move surprisingly fast as they scramble about seeking food morsels and stuffing them into their mouths with flexible arms.
		A scarlet cleaner shrimp with long white antennae is visible to the left of the brittle star.
	www.augsburg.edu /biology/aquaria/Initial2PhotoSets/star.html (117 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Only at night does the brittle star venture out of its hiding place to snake across the surface of the reef because shining a light on an outstretched limb might just cause the animal to hide.
		Brittle stars are echinoderms—relatives of sea stars and sea urchins—and can be distinguished from the other groups by their long, thin, highly flexible arms and their small central disk.
		Because the dorsal surface of the brittle star is covered with thousands of tiny “eyes,” though, and each eye receives light from a slightly different direction and angle, the entire surface can act as one large compound eye.
	biomechanics.bio.uci.edu /_html/nh_biomech/brittlestar/brittle.htm (1152 words)

	Brittle Stars
		The most abundant is the common brittle star Ophiothrix fragilis.
		Brittle-stars are found in deeper water in huge numbers but are still common in the inter tidal zone under rocks.
		This brittle star is half again the size of the common brittle-star.
	www.pznow.co.uk /marine/brittle.html (232 words)

	NAB Brittle Star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Brittle stars, while looking like sea stars, are in a separate class, Ophiuroidea, from the sea stars.
		All of the brittle stars vital organs are located in its central disk (unlike sea stars, which do have organs in their arms) and thus the brittle star can break off its arms as a method of defense.
		This sea star was photographed in about 40 feet of water in front of Captain Don's Habitat in Bonaire.
	www.jaytorborg.com /nab_brittle_star.htm (97 words)

	Green Brittle Star
		In this set of pictures we see the Green Brittle Star attempting to lure the soft meaty portion of this snail from its shell.
		I already have found a shell without its snail I had thought it died originally but after this display of cunning hunting ability, I suspect the other snail was dinner for this mischievous brittle star.
		There were 6 attempts in all by the snail to reach for the rock on the left of its shell.
	www.kccweb.com /tank/green_brittle_star.htm (210 words)

	BrittleStars
		The Brittle or Serpent Stars are grouped as the Class Ophiuroidea, characterized by having highly mobile arms that can be used to assist in (relatively) rapid motion.
		This is the Green Brittle Star of the genus Ophiarachna.
		Ophioderma ensiferum, the Gaudy Brittle Star, in an aquarium.
	www.wetwebmedia.com /brittlestars.htm (827 words)

	Sea and Sky: Brittle Star Wallpaper 1280 X 1024
		This brittle starfish is different from most commonly known starfish because it has long, thin arms than enable it move quickly.
		Most brittle stars have five arms that radiate from a central disk.
		The mouth of the starfish is located underneath this central disk.
	www.seasky.org /stuff/seastuff_wallpaper_BrittleStar_1280.html (126 words)

	Ophiothrix spiculata , Brittle star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This brittle star is lives on the rocky sea floor, from shallow waters to great depths.
		The projections on the five arms of this brittle star look like many tiny hairs, but are actually spines.
		Those aren't worms, they're brittle stars, sea star cousins that hide themselves under rocks and in the holdfasts of kelp, especially in the Pterophyga at Race Rocks.
	www.racerocks.com /pearson/racerock/eco/taxalab/ariolr.htm (431 words)

	42 Gallon Hexagonal Reef - Feather Brittle Star Fish Photos
		I re-feed until the Marine Snow has all be grabbed by the star.
		Photo taken the day the feather star was added, June 5, 2003.
		Closer view of the yellow tipped green feather brittle star fish.
	www.lostmymarblz.com /42gal-featherstar.htm (298 words)

	Mottled Brittle Star, Ophiopholis aculeata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The daisy (or mottled) brittle star, Ophiopholis aculeata, is circumpolar, ranging from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Santa Barbara, California.
		Daisy brittle stars capture prey in the water column with their tube feet or by picking detritus off the bottom.
		The daisy brittle star is in the phylum Echinodermata and the family Ophiactidae.
	www.afsc.noaa.gov /kodiak/photo/misophiur.htm (186 words)

	brittle star behavior - TONMO.com Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In doing this routine, I have discovered a rather strange phenomenon...one of my brittle stars, a red serpent star, has learned to identify the scent of my hand and associate it with food.
		A large red brittle star i have had learned to always been in contact with the octopus as that was wher it got its food from.
		I believe it...after all, if a brittle star can "learn" to associate my scent with food, then I have to think fish, with decent brains, can do a bit more than that.
	www.tonmo.com /forums/showthread.php?p=899 (698 words)

	Brittle Star magazine for poetry and short stories
		Brittle Star magazine for poetry and short stories
		‘‘Brittle Star is a ‘little’ magazine which, for its size, contains a surprising variety of new work: poems, stories, interviews.
		What I especially like about it is that it enables ‘new’ writers to hear their own, and each others’, voices.
	www.brittlestar.org.uk (68 words)

	Brittle Star
		Schayer's Brittle Star is usually grey, with dark rings around the long arms.
		Ranges from Port Stephens (Birubi) New South Wales, around the southern shores of Australia to the Houtman Abrolhos in Western Australia, except the Tasmanian west coast.
		This is probably the most common shallow water brittle star in southern Australia.
	www.mesa.edu.au /friends/seashores/o_schayeri.html (179 words)

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		The Fancy Brittle Star originates from the reefs of Tonga, and is a great scavenger for the marine aquarium.
		The central disc is brown to green in color and may exhibit dark patterns.
		The Fancy Brittle Star enjoys an established saltwater aquarium with plenty of live rock for hiding.
	www.liveaquaria.com /product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=1741 (237 words)

	Marine Biological Laboratory
		This brittle star is easily recognized by the seven or eight short spines projecting from each arm segment.
		Like other brittle stars, these echinoderms are capable of a relatively fast snaky motion.
		The color is usually green or brownish with a diameter of 10-15mm.
	www.mbl.edu /marine_org/marine_org.php?func=detail&myID=BX841&source_myID=D1496 (90 words)

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