A brittle star (Ophiocreas) wraps its arms around the branches of aMetallogorgia coral. Note the eight extended tentacles on each polyp on theright side of the colony. The name Octocorallia' is derived from the eighttentacles.
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Date: 2005 August 18
Credit: North Atlantic Stepping Stones Science Party, IFE, URI-IAO; NOAA/OAR/OER