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Do brittle stars have gills?
How do brittle stars breathe?What are 3 differences between starfish and a brittle star?Is brittle star aquatic?What are the characteristics of a bri...
What is the Brittle Star's prey?
Brittle stars feed on detritus and small oceanic organisms such as plankton, small mollusks, and even fish. Some brittle stars will raise themselves o...
Is a brittle star a mollusc?
Starfish belong to the phylum Echinodermata. Mollusks are a separate phylum of animals. Although both phyla are made up of invertebrates, differences ...
What is a brittle star's symbiotic relationship?
The brittle stars and the corals live in the Gulf of Mexico in a symbiotic relationship. ... The brittle stars use the branches of the coral to gain e...
What does a brittle star eat?
What do they eat? Many brittle stars feed on detritus, using their arms to gather this from the surface or to filter these out of the water. Unlike se...
Is a brittle star a myriapod?
What is a brittle star classified as?Are brittle stars vertebrates?Is brittle star Metameric?Are brittle stars Autotomous?Is a brittle stars a crusta...
How does a brittle star protect itself?
Meet the spiny brittle star Brittle stars are sea star cousins that bury themselves for protection, leaving an arm or two free to catch bits of food. ...
Brittle star coelom type?
brittle star, also called serpent star, any of the 2,100 living species of marine invertebrates constituting the subclass Ophiuroidea (phylum Echinode...
What eats a Brittle Star?
They have many predators, so brittle stars usually only come out at night. Creatures that snack on brittle stars include fish, crabs, hermit crabs, ma...