Starfish - Wikipedia
Starfish or sea stars are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea (/ ˌ æ s t ə ˈ r ɔɪ d i ə /). Common usage frequently finds these names being also applied to ophiuroids , which are correctly referred to as brittle stars or basket stars.
Asteroidea (Sea Stars) - Encyclopedia.com
Conspicuous and successful bottom-dwelling animals that can survive without food for months and feed on almost every type of marine organism encountered on the seabed; they range in size from 0.4 in (1 cm) in diameter to more than 3 ft (91 cm) across and inhabit virtually every latitude and ocean depths.
The World Asteroidea Database - World Register of Marine Species
5 天之前 · The Asteroidea (also known as sea stars or starfish) are among the most diverse and familiar of the living Echinodermata, including over 1800 species from every ocean basin in the world, including the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific as well as the Arctic and the Southern Ocean, inhabiting intertidal to 6000 m abyssal settings.
Global Diversity and Phylogeny of the Asteroidea (Echinodermata)
2012年4月27日 · The class Asteroidea (also known as starfish or sea stars) is one of the most diverse groups within the phylum Echinodermata, including nearly 1900 extant species grouped into 36 families, and approximately 370 extant genera.
Asteroidea - Animalia
Starfish species inhabit all of the world's oceans. Habitats range from tropical coral reefs, rocky shores, tidal pools, mud, and sand to kelp forests, seagrass meadows and the deep-sea floor down to at least 6,000 m (20,000 ft). The greatest diversity of species occurs in coastal areas.
Sea star | Echinoderm Anatomy & Adaptations | Britannica
2024年11月11日 · sea star, any marine invertebrate of the class Asteroidea (phylum Echinodermata) having rays, or arms, surrounding an indistinct central disk. Despite their older common name, they are not fishes.
Starfish: Biology & Ecology of the Asteroidea - Oxford Academic
2013年8月5日 · Asteroids, popularly known as starfish or sea stars, are among the most readily recognized of marine animals. Asteroids are members of the Echinodermata, a major phylum of invertebrates that occurs exclusively in marine or near-marine settings and have a long and rich fossil history dating back to the early Paleozoic.
Starfish or sea stars are echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea. They are a large and diverse class having seven extant orders viz. Brisingida, Forcipulatida, Notomyotida, Paxillosida, Spinulosida, Valvatida and Velatida and two extint one such as Calliasterellidae and Trichasteropsida [1,2].
The sea stars (class Asteroidea) are ecologically important and diverse echinoderms in all of the world’s oceans, occurring from the intertidal to the abyssal zone (to about 6000 m).
Mitogenomics provides new insights into the phylogenetic …
2022年3月18日 · The sea stars (class Asteroidea) are ecologically important and diverse echinoderms in all of the world’s oceans, occurring from the intertidal to the abyssal zone (to about 6000 m). To date, the...