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Stalked Crinoid
Stalked crinoids, or sea lilies, like this one are abundant farther south, but until this individual was sampled on Dive 02 of the 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration expedition, no specimens had been collected for DNA. It may be an “undescribed species,” which means it does not have a formal species name and has not been compared in detail to closely related species. Informally, it is called Endoxocrinus “minimus.”