 "Novodinia antillensis" perches on the branches of arboreal deep water corals, extending its arms into the water column to catch small crustaceans drifting past.The arms form a feeding fan, the pedicellariae grasp and secure the prey, and the arms form loops that surround the food item and take it to the mouth.On the Cape Fear coral mound off North Carolina at a depth of around , the dominant macrobenthos included "N. antillensis" as well as the American conger ("Conger oceanicus"), the alfonsino ("Beryx decadactylus"), sea urchins and squat lobsters ("Eumunida picta").