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Orders of echinoderms?

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Asteroids (starfish) 
Ophiuroids (brittle stars) 
Echinoids (sea urchins) 
Holothurians (sea cucumbers) 
Crinoids (sea lilies and feather stars)
2
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Features of echinoderms?

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Pentaradial symmetry
Water vascular system
Endoskeleton
Marine

3
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What is a madreporite?

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A perforated plate by which the entry of seawater into the vascular system of an echinoderm is controlled.

4
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What is aboral?

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End furthest from the mouth.

5
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What does the water vascular system consist of?

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A ring canal in the centre, radial canals radiating outwards with ampullae and tubefeet.

6
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Features of echinoderm endoskeleton?

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Ossicles of calcium carbonate. Brittle stars have moveable arms due to thinner arms with flexibility between ossicles.

7
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Taxonomy of hemichordates?

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Enteropneusts (acorn worms)

Pterobranchs

8
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Features of acorn worms?

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Very fragile worms.

Few cm long and in a marine environment. Burrows in sand and mud.

Holes in pharynx - pharyngeal gill slits.

Nervous system with an epidermal nerve net.

9
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Features of pterobranchs?

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Tiny (few mms). Sessile.

Sometimes live in colonies.

In a tube, on a stalk. U shaped gut. Filter feeders