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Brittle stars are echinoderms with a skeleton of embedded calcite ossicles (little bones) which fuse to form an armor plate. The plates are covered by the epidermis, so that you can tell where the plates/ossicles are, but you cannot see them directly.
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What is the difference between the brittle stars and the basket stars?
Brittle stars crawl and basket stars do not move or crawl.
Are Brittle stars cold blooded?
yes,brittle stars are cold blooded.
Are brittle stars asexual or sexual?
Some brittle stars breed asexually. Most brittle stars are either male or female however some species are hermaphroditic.
What is the biggest threat for brittle stars?
Some predators of the Brittle Star are: fish, crabs, hermit crabs, mantis shrimp, sea stars and other brittle stars. Brittle stars can regenerate limbs that are broken by predators.
What is the outer covering like for a echinoderm?
The skeleton is on the outside of a sea star they on the type of echinoderm. In Sea Stars and brittle stars the skeleton is small ossicles that move together creating flexible joints.
Are brittle stars endangered?
no
Skeletal plates in starfish?
They make up the skeleton and protect internal structures.
How do brittle stars get food?
With there arms.
Where can brittle stars be found?
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What do brittle stars eat?
One animal that eats brittle stars are banded shrimp. Some parasites of brittle stars include crustaceans, nematodes, trematodes, and polychaete annelids. Unlike other types of starfish, brittle stars are usually not parasitized by annelid worms.
What do brittle stars look like?
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Do brittle stars live in rock pools?
Yes they do.
