echinoderm
IPA: ɛtʃʌnˈoʊdɝm
noun
- An animal of the phylum Echinodermata, comprising radially symmetric, spiny-skinned marine animals including seastars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, crinoids, and sand dollars.
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Examples of "echinoderm" in Sentences
- Then the echinoderm has radial symmetry.
- Echinoderm embryology and the origin of chordates.
- The find shed some light on the origin of the echinoderms.
- Here we are with an echinoderm, a mollusc, and a chordate.
- Articulata are stalked echinoderms with pentamerous symmetry.
- The larvae of echinoderms are ciliated, free swimming organisms.
- Holothuriidae is a family of sea cucumbers, a type of echinoderm.
- His name is that of the genus of echinoderms to which starfish belong.
- The Dipleurula is a bilaterally symmetrical, ciliated echinoderm larva.
- The Ophiurida are an order of echinoderms within the class Ophiuroidea.
- Echinoderm larvae are not included, since they are bilaterally symmetrical.
- When the occasional mollusk or echinoderm proves too tough or too large to swallow whole, there are always hands.
- The echinoderm was the first to latch on, gradually growing as it sat on the shell, but sometime later a bryozoan larvae also took up residence there.
- "It's an echinoderm," he said, "generally with five arms, that lives only in the sea, has a simple stomach, and feeds on the minute organisms in the water."
- Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The Great Barrier Reef provides a home for 5,000 to 8,000 species of mollusk and 800 species of echinoderm a phylum that includes starfish and sea urchins.
- I cannot believe that the Isthmus of Panama has been open since the commencement of the glacial period; for, notwithstanding the fishes, so few shells, crustaceans, and, according to Agassiz, not one echinoderm is common to the sides.
- The variety of aquatic wildlife reads like an open casting call for Finding Nemo: Over 1,500 species of fish, 5,000-8,000 species of mollusks, 30 species of whales and dolphins, 600 species of echinoderm such as starfish, 17 varieties of sea snakes, and 6 species of marine turtles which are listed as threatened.
- They didn't just publish one mega-paper, but they had a whole section on Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, with a genomics mega-paper and articles on ecology and paleogenomics and the immune system and the transcriptome, and even a big poster of highlights of sea urchin research but strangely, very little on echinoderm development.