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Title: "Basket Star I" (Detail of arm of a Basket Sea Star, Astroboa nuda) Fiji Islands, 2001 TOTAL EDITION: 300 SIZE: 11.5" X 16.5" (29cm X 42cm) |
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| The Basket stars are nocturnal. At night, they emerge from protected hiding places, climb out onto exposed areas of the reef, and unfurl their large, delicate, lacy arms. The drifting currents provide their evening meal, plankton caught in a "net" of branching arms. | |||||
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