Brisingida | |
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Brisingid sea star | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Echinodermata |
Class: | Asteroidea |
Superorder: | Forcipulatacea |
Order: |
Brisingida Fisher, 1928 |
Families | |
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The Brisingids are deep-sea-dwelling starfish in the order Brisingida. [1] [2]
These starfish have between 6 and 16 long, attenuated arms which they use for suspension feeding. [3] Other characteristics include a single series of marginals, a fused ring of disc plates, the lack of actinal plates, a spool-like ambulacral column, reduced abactinal plates, and crossed pedicellariae. [4] They are 40 times the size of disk radius and have 7–20 flexible spiny arms. [5]
Brisingida occur in a number of deep-sea locations, particularly in the Caribbean and New Zealand. [6]
This type of species are found of varying size especially in the eastern Pacific Ocean at a depth of 1,820–2,418 m. [5]
The Brisingida contain two families, with 18 genera: [2]
Brisingida | |
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Brisingid sea star | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Echinodermata |
Class: | Asteroidea |
Superorder: | Forcipulatacea |
Order: |
Brisingida Fisher, 1928 |
Families | |
See text. |
The Brisingids are deep-sea-dwelling starfish in the order Brisingida. [1] [2]
These starfish have between 6 and 16 long, attenuated arms which they use for suspension feeding. [3] Other characteristics include a single series of marginals, a fused ring of disc plates, the lack of actinal plates, a spool-like ambulacral column, reduced abactinal plates, and crossed pedicellariae. [4] They are 40 times the size of disk radius and have 7–20 flexible spiny arms. [5]
Brisingida occur in a number of deep-sea locations, particularly in the Caribbean and New Zealand. [6]
This type of species are found of varying size especially in the eastern Pacific Ocean at a depth of 1,820–2,418 m. [5]
The Brisingida contain two families, with 18 genera: [2]