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Starfish
Also known as sea stars, these echinoderms are 2,000 species strong and found in seas and oceans all over the world. They can vary in size from less than half an inch to more than four feet across.
1,388 Questions
What kind of body covering does a star fish have?
Star fish are a 'echinoderms' (which, from the Greek, means "spiny skin"). The skin encloses the animals skeleton which is composed of calcareous plates or ossicles through and over which the skin grows. This means that thy are hard to the touch.
yes they can regenerate. Marine sponges are multicellular animals that can regenerate from single cells.
No studies have gone into this, but you can say that starfish send their stomach and other digestive fluids out from their body to digest the food that they will eat, then the starfish will eat the partially digested food back up. So, it is sort of regurgitating.
What is a starfish arm called?
They are referred to as arms. Read the following.
The water vascular system has many projections called tube feet on the ventral face of the sea star's arms which function in locomotion and aid with feeding. Tube feet emerge through openings in the endoskeleton and are externally expressed through the open grooves present along the bottom of each arm. (Wikipedia)
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Because it lives sessile, at the sea floor the answer is yes.
How many start points would 21 normal starfish have altogether?
105 starpoints. :>
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What is the symbiotic relationships starfish have?
They are symbiotic with sea turtles. Often, you will see starfish on sea turtles' backs; the sea turtle provides food, while the starfish are brightly colored and scare off predators.
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What does Ken Wahl the star from Wiseguy look like today?
I heard he gained alot of weight and went grey....grew a beard as well so virtually unrecognizable..
How is the brittle sea star related to humans?
It isn't. It might have similar abilities, but they are not related to us.
What bony plates make up a starfishs skeleton?
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.
How do starfish tell whether its light or dark?
All starfish have a small "eyespot" at the end of each arm. This spot senses light, but is not sophisticated enough to allow them to see images.
Can a sea biscuit be a sea star?
No. Sea biscuits and sea stars are both echinoderms, but they are different animals.
Why are foxes more closely related to snakes than sea stars?
Both foxes and snakes are vertebrates while sea stars belong to a group of invertebrates called echinoderms. This means that foxes and snakes share a common ancestor (probably something resembling a lizard) which they do not share with sea stars.
Where can you get a pet starfish?
One place that a person can get a pet starfish is from PetCo. If you have a pet starfish, you need to make sure that you have the proper kind of equipment to take care of the starfish.
Starfish (Sea stars) are echinoderms, a type of spiny animal.
