The giant basket star is a very large echinoderm that can reach a diameter of nearly a metre when its arms are fully extended.

It has a central disc and eight slender, flexible arms that repeatedly divide to form a fine-meshed net-like structure.

[3] This basket star is found in warmer regions of the western Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.

[5] The arms are much branched and the mesh size is small, so it probably captures a wide variety of prey.

When it touches a food particle, the smallest branches close around it to form a ball which is then moved to the mouth.