Brittle Stars Gallery

The Moonchild by Florence Mary Anderson

A small, angelic looking child is carried through the sky in a basket held by a colourful group of fairies and pixies.
c.1925

© The Florence Mary Anderson Collection / Peter & Dawn Cope / Mary Evans

Anderson, Angelic, Basket, Child, Children, Elf, Elves, Fairies, Fairy, Fantasy, Florence, Fly, Flying, Goblin, Goblins, Magical, Mary, Moon, Moonchild, Moonlight, Moonlit, Pixie, Pixies, Sky, Starry, Stars, Tale, Tales, Winged, Wings

Deep sea fauna, lithograph, published in 1897

Deep sea fauna: 1) Bamboo coral (Mopsea); 2) Pink glass shrimp (Pasiphaea multidentata); 3) Scaly Dragonfish (Stomias boa); 4) Loosejaw (Malacosteus niger); 5) Gulper eel (Saccopharynx ampullaceus); 6) Eustomias obscurus; 7) Nemertesia ramosa; 8) Sea pen (Umbellula); 9) Sea cucumber (Benthodytes); 10) Tadpole shrimp (Polycheles validus, or Pentacheles validus); 11) Starfish (Archaster); 12) Brisingid sea star; 13) Sea cucumber (Oneirophanta); 14) Sea urchin (Echinocyamus); 15) Sea anemone (Epizoanthus) and Hermit Crab (Pagurus); 16) Sea cucumber (Peniagone); 17) Sea anemone (Chitonactis); 18) King crab (Lithodes maja); 19) Ditch shrimp (Palaemon varians); 20) Venus flower basket (Euplectella aspergillum); 21) Sea lily (Pentacrinus); 22) Sea star Hymenaster. Lithograph, published in 1897

Northern basket star (Gorgonocephalus eucnemis)

Northern basket star (Gorgonocephalus eucnemis), has arms with miniature hooks and spies that hold and manipulate food particles. Here it is positioned in an exposed spot, feeding by spreading the arms across the current, twisting and coiling and looking like a moving shrub. The arms may be 70 cm long. The fish is safe; the basket star's prey are small creatures. Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Japan