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Chapter 10 Section 5
Discover Activity How do sea stars hold on? Page 358
Objectives: To list the main characteristics of echinoderms. To name he major groups of echinoderms.
Echinoderms: The "Spiny-skinned" Animals Echinoderms include starfish sea cucumbers sea urchins sand dollars The water vascular system is a system of fluid- filled internal tubes that carry food and oxygen, remove wastes, and help echinoderms move. All echinoderms use their tube feet to "walk". Some use them to get food.
Echinoderms have an endoskeleton made of hardened plates. Adults have radial symmetry, usually in multiples of 5. They reproduce sexually. The fertilized eggs develop into larva which undergo a metamorphosis to become adults.
Star Fish
Starfish Starfish have five or more arms (or rays) that extend from a central body. Starfish have the ability to regenerate. They use their tube feet to capture prey and to move.
Iconocaster longimanus
Sea star on intertidal flat
Basket Star Feather Starfish
Starfish (with yellow polyps)
y/echinoderms/urchin01 Green Stripped Serpent Star
Blue Linkia Star Fish
cushion star
Brittle Stars Similar in appearance to star fish, but do not have suction cups on their tube feet. Their arms are long and slender with flexible joints.
ery/echinoderms/urchin 01 Brittle Star
Dwarf Brittle Star
Sea Cucumbers Resemble a warty cucumber Head on one end and an anus at the other Move along the ocean bottom by using the five rows of tube feet on their body surface to wiggle back and forth
Blotched sea Cucumber
Sea Cucumber
Slipper Sea Cucumber
Sea Urchins and Sand Dollars Both are round shaped and rayless Sand dollars are flat Sea urchins are dome shaped Have long spines that are used for protection Some have poisonous sacs found at the tip of each spine that can deliver painful stings
oderms/urchin01 Purple-spined Sea Urchin
Purple Sea Urchin Rock-boring Urchin
Pencil sea urchin
SAND DOLLAR -- Live Dendraster excentricus
Tiny Florida Sand Dollar Sea Shell Biscuits Sea Shell Cookies
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