Esmark's Brittle Star (Ophioplocus esmarki)
There are many strange varieties of sea star, some huge some tiny some leather others rasp-rough and almost every color of the visible spectrum is distributed among their spineless kind.
Esmark's brittle star (Ophioplocus esmarki) strikes me as being the most pre-historic in appearance and perhaps the most monstrous with their clumsy-looking simple arms edged in saw-fish-like toothy projections.
Even its name seems archaic and mysterious. And for the life of me I can't find the individual "Esmark" whose eponym became the creature's own. Maybe in time I'll be able to track that down.
Also featured in this brief yet still somewhat overstretched piece is a brilliant red proliferating anemone (Epiactis prolifera) a Leopard Dorid
The audio track is a slice of Märchenbilder, sometimes known in English as 'Fairy Tale Pictures', Op. 113, written by Robert Schumann in March 1851
obtained from musopen.org and the only performance attribution I can find is the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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