Antarctica has a new inhabitant: a creature with 20 arms

The new resident has a sea Antarcticaas a group of researchers from the Scripps Institution Oceanography V University of California in the USA, he discovered a rather rare species of 20-ray starfish.

“The Antarctic feather star is a sea creature with “20 arms”, some of which are serrated, some of which are feathery, and in total they can reach 20 centimeters in length.“as reported Greg Roseprofessor of marine biology at the Scripps Institution Oceanography V University of California in the United States, who co-authored a paper on the find with Emily McLaughlin and Nerid Wilson. The researchers published their research in Taxonomy of invertebrates.

“If you get closer to his body, you’ll see a little bump on top of all those arms, it’s the size and shape of a strawberry or strawberry,” Rose explained.

The tentacles of this Antarctic feathered star, also called cirrus, have “small claws at the end that are used to hold the bottom of the seabed.” The so-called arms are the longest, feather-like parts of the Antarctic Strawberry Feather Star. “They’re usually spread out,” Rose explained, “and help the creature’s movement.”

Official name of the new species Promachocrinus fragarius. Belongs to the class Crinoidea, which includes starfish, sea urchins, sea urchins and sea cucumbers, as well as a variety of feather star., hence the less formal name “Antarctic Feather Star”. Fragarius comes from the Latin word “fragum”, which means strawberry.