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Introduction to the Echinodermata - Overview of the systematics and ecology of starfish, brittle stars, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, and sand dollars.
Phylum Echinodermata - Some characteristics of the phylum that includes starfish, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, crinoids and brittle stars.
Classification of the Extant Echinodermata - Describes the taxonomic groupings and provides links to images of some taxa.
Echinodermata - No description
Echinoderms - Descriptions of the major species of Echinodermata (starfish, brittle star, sea urchin, feather star, sea cucumber) with illustrations and links to photos.
The Ophiuroidea - A brief introduction to modern and ancient brittle stars by UCMP Berkeley.
Photos of Sea Cucumbers - Photos taken in South East Asia, with text about behavior, habitat, and characteristics.
Sea Cucumber Degradation - 1994 legal update from Galapagos Foundation on sea cucumber fishing.
Sea Cucumbers - Class Holothuroidea - Description and interesting facts.
Athyonidium chilensis - Images and brief information about this Chilean species (Dendrochirotida: Cucumariidae).

Stylophora - The Stylophora are a class within the subphylum Homalozoa of the Phylum Echinodermata. All its members are fossil.
Cothurnocystis - Cothurnocystis along with all of its relatives in Stylophora, are enigmatic organisms whose relationship with other organisms, namely the Echinodermata and the Chordata, are in a state of flux. It was boot-shaped and has been suspected to have contained a primitive notochord.
Pseudodiadematidae - Pseudodiadematidae are members of the phylum Echinodermata. Their fossil remains date to the Cretaceous period (144 - 66.
Echinoderm - Echinoderms it means star fish Destinee dah!!(Phylum Echinodermata, from the Greek for spiny skin) are a phylum of marine animals found at all ocean depths.
Endoskeleton - An endoskeleton is an internal support structure of an animal. In three phyla and one subclass of animals, endoskeletons of various complexity are found: Chordata, Echinodermata, Porifera and Coleoidea.