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Echinaster subgen. Echinaster Müller & Troschel 1840

Body symmetry

Hotchkiss 2000
radially symmetric
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001325

Definition: having equal proportion around a central point or axis

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cellularity

Cellularity and growth form
multicellular
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993

Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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locomotion

Smith 1937
crawling
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NBO_0000363

Definition: Behavior related to the movement resulting by dragging the body close to the ground or substrate

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mineralized skeleton contains

Mineralogy
high-magnesium calcite
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/highMgCalcite

Definition: Calcium carbonate minerals containing high proportions of magnesium ions. At least 8 mole-% MgCO3.

Attribution: http://paleodb.org/public/tips/ecology_tips.html

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trophic guild

ecology literature
omnivore
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q164509

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Attribution: Crustacean body sizes

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(adult)
Brusca and Brusca, 2003
omnivore
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q164509

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Attribution: Crustacean body sizes

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visual system

Garm and Nilsson 2014
apposition eyes
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IDOMAL_0002229

Definition: A compound eye with no separation between the crystalline-cone layer and the retinula, each rhabdom receiving light only from its own corneal lens.

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