The British Antarctic Survey has recently put out a spread of cool Antarctic invertebrate images. These include this "sea pig" (a sea cucumber, Family Elpidiidae- probably related to the deep-sea Scotoplanes)
What they are calling Gorgonocephalus, (an ophiuroid) apparently perched on an octocoral...
The ubiquitous Antarctic crinoid Promachocrinus, which may be composed of a cryptic species complex
....and this isnt an echinoderm (its an Antarctic amphipod)..but damn. Its cool, isn't it?
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