Crinoid Opening for Filter Feeding | Cyllometra manca

Despite appearances, crinoids are active, mobile animals. This crinoid (Cyllometra manca) has just climbed up to a high spot on the reef shortly after sunset. It has done so to unfurl for a night of filter feeding. Photographed in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

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Despite appearances, crinoids are active, mobile animals. This crinoid (Cyllometra manca) has just climbed up to a high spot on the reef shortly after sunset. It has done so to unfurl for a night of filter feeding. Photographed in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.