They make up the skeleton and protect internal structures.
Echinoderms such as starfish and similar marine animals with radially symmetrical bodies have bone-like calcareous skeletal plates in their skin
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Skeletal system
The bony plates that make up a starfish's skeleton is the ossicles. They are found in not only starfish but sea cucumbers and sea urchins also.
calcareous plates
No, starfish do not have scales. They have a hard, calcareous exoskeleton composed of tiny plates called ossicles. These ossicles provide structure and protection to the starfish's body.
The bony plates of a starfish are made up from calcium carbonate. When the starfish dies, the skeleton usually denigrates and nothing remains except for the oral disk.
It is the ossicles :)
A starfish typically has a rough body due to the presence of small bony plates or spines covering its surface. These structures provide protection and aid in movement for the starfish.
In a starfish, the ambulacral ossicles are little calcified bony plates covering the radial canal.
Yes, as long as the starfish is still alive and both sides of the starfish have part of the center it can regenerate.
Yes, they , like other echinoderms have mesodermal endoskeletons made up of calcareous ossicles, (bony plates).