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Echinodermata
Riley Galton Julia Heunis David Lin
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Echinoderm Classes
Riley Galton

• Asteroidea Sea Stars
• Multiple arms radiating from central disk
• Tube feet on bottom

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• Ophiuroidea Brittle Stars
• Distinct central disk with snake like arms
• Tube feet lack suckers

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Echinoderm Classes
Riley Galton

• Echinoidea Sea Urchins and Sand Dollars
• No arms, but 5 rows of tube feet
• Have muscles that can move
• spines

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• Crinoidea Feather Stars and Sea Lilies
• Flexible arms used in suspension feeding
• Havent changed in 500 million years

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Echinoderm Classes
Riley Galton

• Holothuroidea Sea Cucumbers
• Reduced endoskeleton
• Five rows of tube feet

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• Concentricycloidea Sea Daisies
• Only two known species
• Disk shaped, less than 1cm in diameter

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Echinoderm Sensory Structures
Riley Galton

• Eyespots on the ends of ambulacra are sensitive
  to light
• Pedicellariae (jaw like skeletal structures used
  to keep organisms from settling on skin), tube
  feet, and spines are sensitive to touch
• http//www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/echinodermata/echinom
  m.html

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Echinoderm Reproduction
Riley Galton
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• Sexual
• Eggs and sperm are released into the water where
  they are fertilized
• Larvae are planktonic
• Internal fertilization has been observed in
  certain species of sea stars, brittle stars, and
  sea cucumbers
• Asexual
• Echinoderms can regenerate body parts and organs
• Asexual reproduction can occur (though not by
  will) if the echinoderm is torn with enough of
  the body on each part
• http//www.oceaninn.com/guides/echino.htm

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Body Cavity (Coelom)
Julia Heunis

• PRESENT!
• Coelom A fluid-filled cavity between body wall
  and gut lined by mesoderm
• Two parts
• Perivisceral coelom large, fluid-filled cavity
  where major organs, digestive tube and sex
  organs, are suspended
• Water Vascular System - network of hydraulic
  canals unique to echinoderms that branches into
  extensions (tube feet) which function in
  locomotion, feeding and gas exchange

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ritannica.com/EBchecked/topic/452108/perivisceral-
coelom http//www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/jvaughan/
b151/VOCAB_vertebrates.html
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Body Symmetry
Julia Heunis
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• evolved from animals with bilateral symmetry
• adult echinoderms possess radial symmetry
• All echinoderms exhibit fivefold radial symmetry
  in portions of their body at some stage of life
  (5 parts around central axis), even if they have
  secondary bilateral symmetry
• For the most part
• LARVAE bilateral
• ADULTS radial

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinoderm
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Excretory System
Julia Heunis

• NO true excretory system!
• Main opening of a sponge used only to EXPEL WASTE
• Anus leads directly from stomach/digestive tract
• Anus top
• mouth bottom

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Olivia Heunis
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Skeletal TypeEchinodermata Spiny Skinned
Julia Heunis

• DO NOT possess an exoskeleton
• a thin outermost skin covers a mesodermal
  endoskeleton made of tiny calcified plates and
  spines - forms rigid support contained within
  tissues of the organism
• Skeleton composed of skeletal plates called
  ossicles
• Ossicles small bones
• In some species, such as the sea urchin, plates
  of the skeleton are locked together to form a
  rigid structure.
• most sea stars and brittle stars can flex their
  arms skeleton has gaps, flexible plate
  junctures

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Other Unique Features
Julia Heunis

• Echinoderms can REGENERATE
• ex sea cucumbers can eject a portion of gut in
  response to predators and regenerate when safe
• Water vascular system (described earlier) is
  unique to echinoderms varies water pressure to
  control tube feet
• Crinoids and some brittle stars passive
  filter-feeders, absorbing suspended particles
  from passing water
• sea urchins grazers
• sea cucumbers deposit feeders
• starfish active hunters

http//www.starfish.ch/reef/echinoderms.html
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More Unique Features
Julia Heunis

• Autonomy The spontaneous self amputation of an
  appendage when the organism is injured or under
  attack. The autotomized part is usually
  regenerated.
• arms ? multiples of 5 some have more because
  of regeneration
• mutable collagenous tissue connect ossicles
  can maintain different positions without much
  effort

http//www.starfish.ch/reef/echinoderms.html
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Nervous System
David Lin

• Decentralized
• central nerve ring surrounds gut, connect radial
  nerves.
• Radial nerves run under each arm, coordinate
  movement, etc.
• Do not have brains, but some have ganglia along
  radial nerves

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Digestive System
David Lin

• Complete digestive system (tubular gut), mouth to
  anus. (bottom to top)
• Crinoidia filter-feed, use cilia
• Asteroidea Cardiac (evert), pyloric stomach,
  digestive glands
• Urchins Aristotles lantern (masticatory
  apparatus)
• Holothurians suspension/deposit feeders, use
  tentacles.
• http//www.experiencefestival.com/a/Sea_star_-_Int
  ernal_Anatomy/id/2099728

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Locomotion/Musculature
David Lin

• Utilize water vascular system and tube feet
• Water in from madreporite, pumped into ampulla by
  radial canal
• Ampulla contracts, water to podia
• Podia contracts, water to ampulla
• Podia bend, shorten allows movement (vacuum and
  suction)

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Gas Exchange
David Lin

• Asteroids, crinoids dermal gills (thin
  epidermis)
• Urchins infolds of body wall (bursae) opening to
  outside
• Sand dollars modified podia on top (petaloids)
  which are thin-walled and flaplike.
• Holothurians highly branched hindgut called
  "respiratory tree"

http//faculty.vassar.edu/mehaffey/academic/animal
structure/outlines/echinodermata.html
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Circulatory System
David Lin

• Mostly in perivisceral coelom, enhanced by water
  vascular system and hemal system.
• Hemal system series of canals and spaces mostly
  in coelomic channels. Fluid movement by cilia.
  Used to distribute nutrients. No respiratory
  system.

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Quiz

• Echinodermata have ________ symmetry as larvae,
  but display ________ symmetry as adults.
• What allows Echinoderms to function in
  locomotion, feeding and gas exchange?
• Sea stars can grow new arms and sea cucumbers can
  replace their gut after ejecting them. What
  feature of echinoderms does this demonstrate?
• Name the stomachs of a sea star. Functions?

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Answers

• Bilateral, radial
• Water vascular system
• Regeneration
• Cardiac, pyloric evert and enzymes, further
  digestion