Species Profile
Pentaceros
Horned starfish
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumEchinodermata
ClassAsteroidea
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Pentaceros lives in tropical seas.
It is slow-moving and benthic.
Shows extreme skeletal development.
Size & Structure
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Thick rigid body
02
Five short arms
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Prominent spines
04
Bright colours
Pentaceros — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- True coelom, reduced
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan, Deuterostomous
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Radial (pentaradial adult, bilateral larva)
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Incomplete, extracellular
- Nervous system
- Nerve ring with radial nerves
- Excretory organ
- Absent
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Type-I (absent)
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Dermal branchiae and tube feet
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Water vascular (ambulacral) system
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton (calcareous ossicles)
- Level of Organisation
- Organ-system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Benthic predator
Reef ecosystem balance
Marine biodiversity support
Economic Importance
Morphological studies
Educational specimen
Marine awareness value