Species Profile
Echinocardium
Heart urchin
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumEchinodermata
ClassEchinoidea
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Echinocardium lives buried in sand.
It feeds on organic matter.
It is a burrowing echinoderm.
Size & Structure
01
Heart-shaped body
02
Short spines
03
Flattened form
Echinocardium — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Reduced
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral secondary 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
Burrowing detritivore
Sediment turnover
Marine ecosystem role
Economic Importance
Marine ecological studies
Educational specimen