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Echinoderms Phylum Echinodermata, from the Greek for spiny skin
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Phylum Echinodermata – spiney-skinned animals includes sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, sand dollars, sea cucumbers, and crinoids reverted back to radial symmetry tube feet and water vascular system
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Echinoderms
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Subphylum Asterozoa Classes –Asteroidea (sea star) – Ophiuroidea (brittle stars)
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Subphylum Echinozoa Classes –Echinoidea (sea urchin and sand dollar) – Holothuroidea (sea cucumber)
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Subphylum Crinozoa –Crinoidea (feather stars and sea-lillies)
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Characteristics Adult echinoderms possess radial symmety
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Sea star Class Asteroidea
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Bat star
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Brittle star Class Ophiuroidea
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Sea urchin Class Echinoidea
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Purple urchins
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Sand-dollar Class Echinoidea
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Sea cucumber Class Holothuroidea
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Feather star Class Crinoidea
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Characteristics Echinoderms' larvae are ciliated, free- swimming organisms that are bilaterally symmetrical
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Characteristics echinoderms do not possess an external skeleton. a thin skin covers an endoskeleton made of tiny calcified plates and spines Echinoderms possess a unique water vascular system, a network of fluid-filled canals that function in gas exchange, feeding, and secondarily in locomotion echinoderms possess a complete digestive tube Many echinoderms can regenerate. Some sea stars are capable of regenerating lost arms. In some cases, lost arms have been observed to regenerate a second complete sea star. the seastar can insert its stomach through the opening of a bivalve and release gastric juices, digesting the prey alive during feeding
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Echinoderm means spiny skin
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