Ophiure

From the bottom of his nets a fisherman one day gave me three almost dying creatures, a sea hedgehog, a sea star, and another star, a pretty ophiure, which still moved and soon lost its delicate arms.

Other symbionts found on the same host were: Lissoporcellana pectinata Haig (Porcellanidae), crabs Quadrella sp. (Trapeziidae), some specimens of spider-crab family Majidae, and ophiures (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea).

SHORT-SPINED OPHIURE.

In the Ophiure, the arms are of great length, and in Euryale, each arm, directly it stretches out beyond the body, divides into two branches, and these again into others, which again and again divide, assuming the appearance of interweaving branches of a tree, and which they employ for entangling their prey.

Their food consisted of shells, worms, and Ophiures.

As for the species level, ophiures Amphiodia urtica dominate.

Ophiures (Ophiocten gracialis Sars) and starfishes (Pontaster tenuispinus), inhabiting the bottom near the submarine «Komsomolets», contained similarly low levels of ⁶⁰Co (Kuznetsov et al., 1996, 1997a).