Directory of Crinoidea Resources

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The Crinoids include about 625 living species of sea lilies and feather stars. Some have stalks and wave their feathery arms to catch fragments and work them towards their mouths with their tube feet and cilia. The feather stars walk on the tips of their arms, or swim by moving their arms alternately so that half are up and half down at any one time.

Resources in This Category

• ADW: Class Crinoidea

  http://animaldiversity.org/site/accounts/information/Crinoidea.html
  Photographs and information on the feather stars and sea lilies from the Animal Diversity Web.

• Crinoid Creatures

  http://divegallery.com/crinoids.htm
  Spectacular photographs and a brief article about modern crinoids.

• Crinoidea

  http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Crinoidea&contgroup=Echinodermata
  Extensive article about modern and ancient crinoids by William I. Ausich and Charles G. Messing for the Tree of Life project.

• Crinoidea

  http://tolweb.org/Crinoidea
  Introduction, characteristics, phylogenetic relationships and evolution, from the Tree of Life Web Project.

• Wikipedia: Crinoid

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crinoidea
  Encyclopedia article on the sea lilies or feather-stars.

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