Species Profile
Antedon
Feather star
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumEchinodermata
ClassCrinoidea
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Antedon temporarily attaches to substratum.
Feeds on plankton.
Marine echinoderm.
Size & Structure
01
Feather-like arms
02
Small central disc
03
Flexible body
Antedon — 3D Model
No 3D model available
General Features
- Coelom
- Reduced
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Radial
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Nerve ring
- Excretory organ
- Absent
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic
- Circulatory type
- Type-I (absent)
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Tube feet
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Water vascular system
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Organ-system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Plankton feeder
Marine food web
Economic Importance
Marine research
Educational specimen