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Spiny Skinned Animals Marine Slow moving or sessile Starfish, Sea Urchins, Sea Cucumbers, Sand Dollars, Feather Star Coelom One Way Digestive Tract Radial Symmetry 3 tissue layer Tube Feet • Locomotion, feeding, and gas exchange Endoskeleton •Internal Skeleton Nerve ring is centrally located around the mouth with radiating nerves Asexual • Regeneration Sexual Reproduction • External Fertilization Starfish Five arms that project from a central disk Bottom Dwellers Carnivorous No Excretory System Water Vascular System Water is drawn in through central disc Water passes through canals Water goes to bulb of tube feet When bulbs contract: •Water is forced into tube feet •Creates a suction When the bulbs relax: •Water is pushed back into canals •Relaxes suction Marine or land dwelling Have a soft body enclosed by a shell or shells • (Slugs have lost their mantle and shells during evolution) Bilateral Symmetry 3 tissue layers Coelom Head is well developed •Exception: clam Radula: Feeding Device • Rasping organ that scrapes food in snails Muscular Foot Gills for aquatic species One way digestive tract Visceral Mass Digestive, reproductive, excretory, and circulatory systems Mantel ( folded tissue ) • Forms shell Open Circulatory System Snails and slugs Largest group of molluscs Found in fresh water, salt water, and terrestrial environments Eats plants, meat, or dead organisms Terrestrial Gastropods • Only mollucs that live on land • No gills • Simple lung Bivalves • Valve = shell Oysters, Clams, Mussels, Scallops No Radula Gills used for respiration and feeding Some are sessile (mussels) Squids and Octopuses Most highly specialized mollusks Have a large brain • Eyes are among the most complex organs in animal kingdom Carnivorous • Use beak like jaws and a radula to crush or rip prey apart Foot has evolved into large arms that project form the head Closed Circulatory System