This species has elongate, highly flexible, annulated (ringed) arms.
A. annulata are found living among the fairly common branching corals that live
on the hard-bottom areas of the continental shelf region.
| Abundance: uncommon | Distribution: outer shelf (50 m) |
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This species has elongate, highly flexible, annulated (ringed) arms.
A. annulata are found living among the fairly common branching corals that
live
on the hard-bottom areas of the continental shelf region.
The dorsal view shows
the annulated arms, with raised light-colored ridges
and depressed dark rings. Arms are long and flexible, tapering to a fine point.
(This specimen was collected on the
shelf-edge during the Charleston
Bump expedition)
A. annulata lives
in a similar habitat to other brittle stars of the
continental shelf off the South Carolina coast.
Details of the arms show
their incredible flexibility, all the way to the elongated tips.
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