What is the classification of starfish?
Asteroidea
Starfish/Scientific names
Classification: Starfish are also referred to as sea stars because of their star-shaped appearance. They are a part of the phylum Echinodermata and are related to sand dollars, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers. Echinoderms are found in nearly all marine habitats and constitute a major proportion of the biomass.
Are sea stars carnivores?
Sea stars live in salt water and are found in all of the world’s oceans, from warm, tropical waters to the cold seafloor. Sea stars are mostly carnivorous and prey on mollusks—including clams, mussels and oysters—which they pry open with their suction-cupped feet.
What is the phylum of Astropecten?
Echinoderm
Astropecten/Phylum
Is a starfish a hydrostatic skeleton?
Hydrostatic skeletons are very common in invertebrates. Also, hydrostatic nature is common in marine life such as jelly fish, starfish, and sea anemones. Earthworms have rings of muscles that are filled with fluid, making their entire body hydrostatic.
Are Cod carnivores?
The adult cod is carnivorous and when hungry will eat almost any marine animal including other cod, but it feeds mainly on the smaller fatty fishes such as herring, capelin and sand eels, and on shrimp and squid.
Are jellyfish carnivores?
Jellyfish are like other cnidarians generally carnivorous (or parasitic), feeding on planktonic organisms, crustaceans, small fish, fish eggs and larvae, and other jellyfish, ingesting food and voiding undigested waste through the mouth.
What kind of animal do you think that Astropecten Irregularis is?
Astropecten irregularis is a sea star of the family Astropectinidae.
What family is a starfish?
Asteriidae
Common starfish
| Asterias rubens | |
|---|---|
| Class: | Asteroidea |
| Order: | Forcipulatida |
| Family: | Asteriidae |
| Genus: | Asterias |