ECHINODERMATA
Phylum, Subclass, Class
이 룰렛의 항목 (24개)
- Presence of calcareous endoskeleton
- Deuterostomes with modified radial symmetry
- Cephalization mostly absent –no anterior or posterior part, Parts are designated as oral (area where the mouth is) or aboral (area away from mouth)
- Typically with five arms arranged around a central disk
- Presence of five (or multiple of 5) arms originating from a central disc
- The madreporite is located near one of the jaw plate
- Multigene inversion of the mitochondrial DNA
- Spherical (regular urchins) or disk shaped (irregular urchins) body covered in test made from overlapping ossicles (skeletal plates)
- The central disk is sharply marked off from the arms
- Podia passes through the ambulacral plates
- With pedicellaria
- Includes the sea stars (formerly class Asteroidea)and brittle stars (formerly class Ophioroidea)
- Stalked species is composed of the stem, calyx and arms
- Presence of shields protective calcareous plate made of single calcite crystal
- Presence of Aristotle’s Lantern –a system of ossicles and muscles which protrude from the mouth for feeding
- Gonads and part of the digestive system extends into the arms (pyloric caeca)
- Can be attached to substrate by a stalk(Sea lilies –with columnalsor calcareous disc in the stalk) or unstalked forms (Feather stars –with cirri or grasping claws)
- Predatory on bivalves and other echinoderms
- Defense mechanism includes Cuvierian tubules (sticky or toxic structures) or by completeevisceration= ejecting its internal organs
- Cucumber-shaped
- No arms
- With U shaped gut where the anus is located near the mouth
- With respiratory trees highly branched muscular respiratory structures
- With eversible stomach