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This deep sea mud star, Dytaster insignis, is a species which occurs in the true abyss, 2,515 3,530 meters (8,250 11,580 feet)! Although this individual was observed on the surface of the sand/mud, it and other related mud star species are often seen buried just below the surface of muddy or sandy bottoms. The unfurled tube feet are quite different from the tube feet that one might observe on a sea star in the rocky intertidal. The tube feet on these stars are pointed, rather than tipped with a sucker or a flat tip. These pointed tube feet, in conjunction with spines around the bottom edge of the body, assist these species in digging into the mud. Here it uses them to move quickly across the sea floor. Okeanos Ocean Explorer, Gulf of Mexico 2018.

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