[1][2] These starfish have between 6 and 16 long, attenuated arms which they use for suspension feeding.

[3] Other characteristics include a single series of marginals, a fused ring of disc plates, the lack of actinal plates, a spool-like ambulacral column, reduced abactinal plates, and crossed pedicellariae.

[4] They are 40 times the size of disk radius and have 7–20 flexible spiny arms.

[5] Brisingida occur in a number of deep-sea locations, particularly in the Caribbean and New Zealand.

[6] This type of species are found of varying size especially in the eastern Pacific Ocean at a depth of 1,820–2,418 m.[5] The Brisingida contain two families, with 18 genera:[2]