Crinoid Feeding Strategies: New Insights From Subsea Video and Time - Laps

This Element includes time-lapse video made in 1983 on film, followed by recent digital videography from submersibles and remotely operated vehicles of deep-sea crinoids, revealing behaviors in taxa never before seen in life.

List 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.

Summary

This Element includes time-lapse video made in 1983 on film, followed by recent digital videography from submersibles and remotely operated vehicles of deep-sea crinoids, revealing behaviors in taxa never before seen in life.

Product details

• Authors: Charles G Messing, Charles G. Messing, David Meyer, David (University of Cincinnati) Veitch Meyer, MEYER DAVID, Angela Stevenson, Margaret Veitch
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781108810074
• ISBN: 978-1-108-81007-4
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements of Paleontology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Evolution, SCIENCE / Paleontology, Palaeontology