grasps food with it's arms, it's pretty cool to watch
carnivore
mostly under rocks!
Because brittle stars are very fragile. Interestingly, Brittle stars use this fragility to defend themselves by easily losing arm segments or even entire arms. This strategy works because they are also able to regenerate these lost parts. They use their brittle quality and regenerative powers, in a way similar to that of some lizards, who lose part of their tails to confuse, appease, and evade predators.Brittle stars, Ophiuroids, are echinoderms, closely related to basket stars and distantly to star fish, sand dollars, and urchins.
Yes! it is brittle
No, it's not brittle at all.
The scientific name of a brittle star is Ophiuroidea.
A Brittle star is not a myriapod. A Brittle star is an echinoderm. An example of a myriapod would be a centipede.
The Brittle star is in the Family Ophiodermatidae.
Um...brittle star?
a brittle star is an invertabrate
invertabrateA Brittle star is not a myriapod
a brittle star is a type of starfish.
Brittle star
The brittle star belongs to the phylum Echinodermata.
the brittle star shows a young indonesian girls innocence and virginity
Yes Unlike star fish though, the Brittle star's legs don't touch at the center.
The brittle star has a five-fold symmetry as do all members of class echinadermata.