#echinoderm marine invertebrates with tube feet and calcite-covered five-part radially symmetrical bodies
supertype: #invertebrate any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification
part: #water_vascular_system #ambulacrum #tube_foot
member of: #phylum_Echinodermata
subtype: #starfish__sea_star__seastar echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk
subtype: #brittle_star__brittlestar__serpent_star__serpentstar an animal resembling a starfish with fragile whiplike arms radiating from a small central disc
subtype: #basket_star__basket_fish any starfish-like animal of the genera Euryale or Astrophyton or Gorgonocephalus having slender complexly branched interlacing arms radiating from a central disc
subtype: #Astrophyton_muricatum a variety of basket star
subtype: #sea_urchin__seaurchin shallow-water echinoderms having soft bodies enclosed in thin spiny globular shells
subtype: #edible_sea_urchin__Echinus_esculentus a sea urchin that can be eaten
subtype: #sand_dollar flattened disklike sea urchins that live on sandy bottoms
subtype: #heart_urchin__hearturchin sea urchin having a heart-shaped body in a rigid spiny shell
subtype: #crinoid primitive echinoderms having five or more feathery arms radiating from a central disk
subtype: #sea_lily__sealily crinoid with delicate radiating arms and a stalked body attached to a hard surface
subtype: #feather_star__featherstar__comatulid free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms; found on muddy sea bottoms
subtype: #sea_cucumber__seacucumber__holothurian echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders: sea cucumbers
subtype: #trepang__Holothuria_edulis of warm coasts from Australia to Asia; used as food especially by Chinese
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