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n. - Marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies.

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  • The echinoderm was the first to latch on, gradually growing as it sat on the shell, but sometime later a bryozoan larvae also took up residence there.
  • Here we are with an echinoderm, a mollusc, and a chordate.
  • When the occasional mollusk or echinoderm proves too tough or too large to swallow whole, there are always hands.
  • I cannot believe that the Isthmus of Panama has been open since the commencement of the glacial period; for, notwithstanding the fishes, so few shells, crustaceans, and,...
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