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What is the starfish body cavity?
Their skin is covered with bumpy gills.
Explain respiration and gas exchange in starfish?
Respiration in starfish occurs in two locations. The first is through the skin on the ends of its feet. The second is in the gills. The gills are lined with tiny hairs called cilia that filter out unnecessary materials. Oxygen is taken out of the water as the starfish exhales carbon dioxide.
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.
Does a starfish breath with lungs or get oxygen from gills?
star fish using lung to breath
What organ of both fish and clam has the same function as the papulae of the starfish?
The organ in both fish and clams that serves a similar function to the papulae of starfish is the gills. Gills are responsible for gas exchange, allowing aquatic animals to absorb oxygen from the water and expel carbon dioxide. In starfish, papulae also facilitate gas exchange and help in excretion, functioning similarly to gills in terms of respiratory processes.
How does a octopus exchange gases?
The "water-vascular" system uses ocean currents to move water throughout their body, and the starfish use their gills to take oxygen from that water as it circulates.
What types of starfish are there in New Zealand?
there are cusion starfish, reef starfish, spiny starfish and fire brick starfish in new zealand.
What types of different starfish are there What is the scientific name for a starfish?
It is called toilet water.
Do gills have their own gills?
no, because then those gills gills would need gills and they would need gills and so on, so on. They have specialised cells instead.
Do fish breathe with lungs or gills?
gills.
What is the difference between gills and gills chambers?
gills are structures in fish for breathing in water while gills chambers are the cavities in which gills are enclosed
Do starfish die?
Yes they can
