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Echinoderms, such as starfish, have basal nerve ganglia that serve as a nervous system. They also have a water vascular system that acts as a circulatory system. They can reproduce, move, and digest food. Therefore, they are animals.
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What part of the ocean do echinoderms live?
Echinoderms are marine animals, which means they reside in the ocean. Echinoderms are found from the intertidal zone to the abyssal zone.
Do echinoderms live in salt water?
Yes Eventually echinoderms do live in water.
What are echinoderms?
Echinoderms are sea animals that live in salt water. There are five kind of Echinoderms, sea stars, brittle stars, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, and sand dollars. Echinoderms all are invertebrates and have internal skeletons.
What group is a starfish in?
It belongs to Echinoderms.
Where do find echinoderms?
Echinoderms are small aquatic animals only found in salt water. They can be found near the shorelines and shallow waters of the sea.
Which phylum of animals includes the sea star and the sand dollar?
Echinoderms
Are the echinoderms soft-bodied animals?
yes, but only sea cucumber
Are echinoderms heterotrophs or autotrophs?
Echinoderms, like all animals, are heterotrophs and need to eat food to survive.
What the meaning of spiny skin animals?
The Spiny skin sea-animals also known as Echinoderms consist of about 6000 species. They are commonly grouped together as starfish and sea urchins.
What is a characteristic of Echinoderms?
Invertebrate animals with spikes and spines all over their bodies.
How is the embryology of echinoderms similar to vertebrates?
Echinoderms such as starfish and similar marine animals with radially symmetrical bodies have bone-like calcareous skeletal plates in their skin
What phylum your invertebrate specimen belong to?
Echinoderms are marine animals that are invertebrates, while Chordates are animals with backbones. Hope this helps!
