The elegant feather star (Tropiometra carinata) is a species of crinoid in the family Tropiometridae.

[1] Elegant feather stars may grow to 20 cm in total length.

They have ten long arms with ciliated side branches that taper to a point.

[2] These animals are found off the South African coast from the Cape Peninsula to Mozambique as well as circumtropically.

Commensal organisms such as the myzostomid worm Myzostoma fuscomaculatum and the crinoid shrimp Hippolyte catagrapha are found on the specimens found in False Bay.