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What does echinoderm mean?

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  1. Any member of the Echinodermata, a group of radially symmetric, spiny-skinned marine animals. Examples of echinoderms include seastars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, crinoids, and sand dollars.
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There seems to be little or no literature on the central nervous system of this form of echinoderm.
It also agrees with the echinoderm larv in the absence of sense organs on the proral lobe.
Crinoids are marine invertebrates, classified in the echinoderm family, in which we find in particular sea urchins and starfishes.
In the body of an echinoderm can be usually recognized an upper or dorsal surface and a lower or ventral surface.
The name echinoderm comes from the Greek echinos, meaning hedgehog, and derma, the skin.
It was at first thought that we had before us an echinoderm in the act of transformation.

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