Crinoid Feeding Strategies: New Insights From Subsea Video And Time-Lapse
Crinoid Feeding Strategies: New Insights From Subsea Video And Time-Lapse
Margaret Veitch, University of Michigan
Charles G. Messing, Nova Southeastern University
Angela Stevenson, University of British Columbia, Vancouver and GEOMAR
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GBPModern videography provides an ever-widening window into subsea echinoderm life with vast potential for new knowledge. Supported by video evidence throughout, this Element begins with time-lapse video made in 1983 on film, using an off-the-shelf camera, flash, and underwater housings. Although quality has now been significantly improved by digital imagery, films from over thirty years ago captured crinoid feeding behavior previously unknown and demonstrated a great potential to learn about many other aspects of their biology. This sequence is followed by several examples of recent digital videography from submersibles of deep-sea crinoids and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) (stalked and unstalked), as well as close-up video of crinoids in aquaria. These recent studies enabled a new classification of crinoid arm postures, provided detailed views of food particle capture, and revealed a wide range of behaviors in taxa never before seen in life.
- Underwater video capturing behaviors of deep-sea crinoids
- New behaviors never been seen from crinoids
Product details
June 2021Paperback
9781108810074
22 pages
229 × 151 × 2 mm
0.051kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Feather Stars at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef (14O 38' S, 145O 30'E)
- 2. Arm Postures in Living Crinoids
- 3. Mechanism for Particle Interception and Transport in Comatulid Crinoid Florometra Serratissima: Presenting a Range of Particle Sizes from Mesocosm Observations
- 4. Feeding Postures in a Pentacrinoid Florometra and Responses of Democrinus (Bourgeticrinidae) and Cenocrinus (Isocrinidae) to Increased Current.
