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It is 2 inches long and wide. It has very short limbs and its color varies, but it is usually brown, orange or green.
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What shape is the starfish?
the eyes of a starfish are on the end of their legs, like their suction feelers at the bottom of each leg, but different THEY ARE CALLED SEASTAR NOT STARFISH BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT CONSIDERED FISH!
How can you identify the cushion starfish?
The Pentagon Starfish has a bump texture. The body is thick and looks like a pentagon pincushion, and tube feet cover the bottom.
Does echinoderm mean headge hog skin?
No. Echinoderm are things like starfish and sea urchins, invertebrates with spiny outsides .
Is a seastar a arthropod?
No. Arthropoda includes a lot of marine life (like crustaceans) but is a different phylum from the radially-symmetrical Echinodermata, which includes things like starfish, sand dollars, and sea urchins.
What is the Cushion starfish life-cycle?
a cushion starfish is much more bigger than other starfish and fatter.
What does a seastar look like?
a seastar is many different colors and can have from 5 to 12 legs!
Is an urchin and echinoderm?
An echinoderm is a spiny-skinned organism like a starfish. Leeches are soft bodied organisms, so they can't be echinoderms.
What is starfish skin like?
On the surface of a starfish you will find spines used for protection as armor, dermal gills surrounded the spines, a central disk, madreporite, arms and an anus. Underneath tubed feet used for movement, mouth, ambulacral grooves, and its mouth.
What kind of a body plan does a starfish?
For a body plan, a starfish has 5-part radial symmetry, spiny skin, internal skeleton, water vascular system, and suction cup-like structures called tube feet.
What do seastar look like?
Sea Stars and starfish, one in the same, are echinoderms. There are over 1500 varieties, but they all share the five point 'star' shape which consists of a central disc with five arms.
What are Cushion stars predators?
The cushion star looks more like a spineless sea urchin than a starfish. Its arms are so short that they merge with its body and only their tips can be seen. There are no specific predators found for the cushion star.
What type of skeleton do starfish have?
For a body plan, a starfish has 5-part radial symmetry, spiny skin, internal skeleton, water vascular system, and suction cup-like structures called tube feet.
