Authors: M.J. de Kluijver & S.S. Ingalsuo
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Scientific name:

Echinodermata

Vernacular name:

Echinoderms


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Bruguière, 1791 [ex Klein, 1734]

Echinoderms

Description
Marine animals with a radially symmetrical body (mostly five radiate) with a skeleton consisting of calcareous plates and with tube-feet which are in connection with an interior water-vascular system.
They never form colonies.

Treated taxon:
- Class Asteroidea

phylum Echinodermata
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