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Echinoderms
Temporal range:Cambrian Stage 3–Present[1]
Extant and extinct echinoderms of six classes:Fromia indica(Asteroidea);Ophiocoma scolopendrina(Ophiuroidea);Stomopneustes variolaris(Echinoidea);Oxycomanthus bennetti(Crinoidea);Actinopyga echinites(Holothuroidea);Ctenocystoidea.
Scientific classificationEdit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Clade: ParaHoxozoa
Clade: Bilateria
Clade: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Clade: Ambulacraria
Phylum: Echinodermata
Bruguière, 1791 [exKlein,1734]
Type genus
Echinus
Linnaeus, 1758
Subphyla and classes[2]

Homalozoa†Gill & Caster, 1960

Cincta†
Soluta†
Stylophora†
Ctenocystoidea†Robison & Sprinkle, 1969

Crinozoa

Crinoidea
Edrioasteroidea†
Cystoidea†
Rhombifera†

Asterozoa

Ophiuroidea
Asteroidea

Echinozoa

Echinoidea
Holothuroidea
Ophiocistioidea†
Helicoplacoidea†

Blastozoa†

Blastoidea†
Cystoidea†von Buch, 1846
Eocrinoidea†Jaekel,1899
Paracrinoidea†Regnéll, 1945

†=Extinct

Anechinoderm(/ɪˈkaɪnəˌdɜːrm,ˈɛkə-/)[3]is anydeuterostomalanimalof thephylumEchinodermata(/ɪˌkaɪnoʊˈdɜːrmətə/), which includesstarfish,brittle stars,sea urchins,sand dollarsandsea cucumbers,as well as the sessilesea liliesor "stone lilies".[4]Whilebilaterally symmetricalaslarvae,asadultsechinoderms are recognisable by their usually five-pointedradial symmetry(pentamerous symmetry), and are found on the sea bed at every ocean depth from theintertidal zoneto theabyssal zone.The phylum contains about 7,600 livingspecies,making it the second-largest group ofdeuterostomesafter thechordates,as well as the largestmarine-onlyphylum. The first definitive echinoderms appeared near the start of theCambrian.

The echinoderms are important both ecologically and geologically. Ecologically, there are few other groupings so abundant in thebiotic desertof thedeep sea,as well as shallower oceans. Most echinoderms are able toreproduce asexuallyandregeneratetissue, organs and limbs; in some cases, they can undergo complete regeneration from a single limb. Geologically, the value of echinoderms is in theirossifieddermalendoskeletons,which are major contributors to manylimestoneformations and can provide valuable clues as to the geological environment. They were the most used species in regenerative research in the 19th and 20th centuries. Further, some scientists hold that theradiationof echinoderms was responsible for theMesozoic Marine Revolution.

Taxonomy and evolution[edit]

See also:List of echinoderm orders

The name echinoderm is fromAncient Greekἐχῖνος(ekhînos)'hedgehog', andδέρμα(dérma)'skin'.[5]Echinoderms arebilaterians,meaning that their ancestors were mirror-symmetric. Among the bilaterians, they belong to thedeuterostomedivision, meaning that theblastopore,the first opening to form during embryo development, becomes theanusinstead of the mouth.[6][7]The characteristics of adult echinoderms are the possession of awater vascular systemwith externaltube feetand acalcareousendoskeleton consisting ofossiclesconnected by a mesh ofcollagenfibres.[8]

Phylogeny[edit]

Historically, taxonomists believed that the Ophiuroidea were sister to the Asteroidea as the clade Asterozoa, or that they were sister to the (Holothuroidea + Echinoidea) as the clade Cryptosyringida.[9]However, a 2014 analysis of 219 genes from all classes of echinoderms resulted in strong support for Asterozoa.[10]An independent analysis in 2015 of RNA transcriptomes from 23 species across all classes of echinoderms gave the same tree.[9]

External phylogeny

The context of the echinoderms within the Bilateria is:[11]

Bilateria
Internal phylogeny
Echino‑

Crinoidea(feather stars)

Echinozoa
Holothuroidea

sea cucumbers
Echinoidea

sea urchins, etc
Asterozoa
Ophiuroidea

brittle & basket stars
Asteroidea

starfish
dermata

Diversity[edit]

There are about 7,600extantspecies of echinoderm as well as about 13,000 extinct species.[8][12] All echinoderms aremarine,but they are found in habitats ranging from shallow intertidal areas to abyssal depths. Two main subdivisions are traditionally recognised: the more familiarmotileEleutherozoa,which encompasses the Asteroidea (starfish,with some 1,745 species), Ophiuroidea (brittle stars,with around 2,300 species), Echinoidea (sea urchinsandsand dollars,with some 900 species) and Holothuroidea (sea cucumbers,with about 1,430 species); and thePelmatozoa,some of which aresessilewhile others are motile. These consist of the Crinoidea (feather starsandsea lilies,with around 580 species) and the extinctblastoidsandParacrinoids.[13][14]

Fossil history[edit]

The oldest candidate echinodermfossilisArkaruafrom thePrecambrianof Australia. These fossils are disc-like, with radial ridges on the rim and a five-pointed central depression marked with radial lines. However, the fossils have nostereomor internal structure indicating a water vascular system, so they cannot be conclusively identified.[15]

The first universally accepted echinoderms appear in theLower Cambrianperiod; asterozoans appeared in theOrdovician,while the crinoids were a dominant group in thePaleozoic.Echinoderms left behind an extensive fossil record.[16]It is hypothesised that the ancestor of all echinoderms was a simple, motile, bilaterally symmetrical animal with a mouth, gut and anus. This ancestral organism adopted an attached mode of life with suspension feeding, and developed radial symmetry. Even so, the larvae of all echinoderms are bilaterally symmetrical, and all develop radial symmetry at metamorphosis. Like their ancestor, the starfish and crinoids still attach themselves to the seabed while changing to their adult form.[17]

The first echinoderms were non-motile,[17]but evolved into animals able to move freely. These soon developed endoskeletal plates with stereom structure, and external ciliary grooves for feeding.[18]The Paleozoic echinoderms were globular, attached to thesubstrateand were orientated with their oral surfaces facing upwards. These early echinoderms hadambulacral groovesextending down the side of the body, fringed on either side by brachioles, like the pinnules of a modern crinoid. Eventually, except for the crinoids, all the classes of echinoderms reversed their orientation to become mouth-downward. Before this happened, the podia probably had a feeding function, as they do in the crinoids today. The locomotor function of the podia came later, when the re-orientation of the mouth brought the podia into contact with the substrate for the first time.[17]

Further information:Dibrachicystis

Anatomy and physiology[edit]

Echinoderms evolved from animals withbilateral symmetry.Although adult echinoderms possesspentaradialsymmetry, their larvae areciliated,free-swimming organisms with bilateral symmetry. Later, during metamorphosis, the left side of the body grows at the expense of the right side, which is eventually absorbed. The left side then grows in apentaradiallysymmetric fashion, in which the body is arranged in five parts around a central axis.[19]Within theAsterozoa,there can be a few exceptions from the rule. Most starfish in the genusLeptasteriashave six arms, although five-armed individuals can occur. TheBrisingidaalso contain some six-armed species. Amongst the brittle stars, six-armed species such asOphiothela danae,Ophiactis savignyi,andOphionotus hexactisexists, andOphiacantha viviparaoften has more than six.[20]

Echinoderms have secondary radial symmetry in portions of their body at some stage of life, most likely an adaptation to a sessile or slow-moving existence.[21]Many crinoids and some seastars are symmetrical in multiples of the basic five; starfish such asLabidiaster annulatuspossess up to fifty arms, while thesea-lilyComaster schlegeliihas two hundred.[22]

Genetic studies have showed that genes which direct the development of the trunk region is absent during the development (only known exception is a gene active at the tip of the sea stars arms), indicating that their body consists of just a developed head region.[23][24]

Skin and skeleton[edit]

Echinoderms have amesodermalskeleton in the dermis, composed ofcalcite-based plates known asossicles.If solid, these would form a heavy skeleton, so they have a sponge-like porous structure known as stereom.[25][26]Ossicles may be fused together, as in thetestof sea urchins, or mayarticulateto form flexible joints as in the arms of sea stars, brittle stars and crinoids. The ossicles may bear external projections in the form of spines, granules or warts and they are supported by a toughepidermis.Skeletal elements are sometimes deployed in specialized ways, such as the chewing organ called "Aristotle's lantern"in sea urchins, the supportive stalks of crinoids, and the structural" lime ring "of sea cucumbers.[19]

Although individual ossicles are robust and fossilize readily, complete skeletons of starfish, brittle stars and crinoids are rare in the fossil record. On the other hand, sea urchins are often well preserved in chalk beds or limestone. During fossilization, the cavities in the stereom are filled in with calcite that is continuous with the surrounding rock. On fracturing such rock,paleontologistscan observe distinctive cleavage patterns and sometimes even the intricate internal and external structure of the test.[27]

The epidermis contains pigment cells that provide the often vivid colours of echinoderms, which include deep red, stripes of black and white, and intense purple.[28]These cells may be light-sensitive, causing many echinoderms to change appearance completely as night falls. The reaction can happen quickly: the sea urchinCentrostephanus longispinuschanges colour in just fifty minutes when exposed to light.[29]

One characteristic of most echinoderms is a special kind of tissue known ascatch connective tissue.Thiscollagen-based material can change its mechanical properties under nervous control rather than by muscular means. This tissue enables a starfish to go from moving flexibly around the seabed to becoming rigid while prying open abivalve molluscor preventing itself from being extracted from a crevice. Similarly, sea urchins can lock their normally mobile spines upright as a defensive mechanism when attacked.[30][31]

The water vascular system[edit]

Main article:Water vascular system
Diagram ofwater vascular systemof a starfish, showing the ring canal, the radial canals, ampullae (small bulbs), andtube feet

Echinoderms possess a unique water vascular system, a network of fluid-filled canals modified from thecoelom(body cavity) that function in gas exchange, feeding, sensory reception and locomotion. This system varies between different classes of echinoderm but typically opens to the exterior through a sieve-likemadreporiteon the aboral (upper) surface of the animal. The madreporite is linked to a slender duct, the stone canal, which extends to a ring canal that encircles the mouth oroesophagus.The ring canal branches into a set of radial canals, which in asteroids extend along the arms, and in echinoids adjoin the test in the ambulacral areas. Short lateral canals branch off the radial canals, each one ending in an ampulla. Part of the ampulla can protrude through a pore (or a pair of pores in sea urchins) to the exterior, forming a podium ortube foot.The water vascular system assists with the distribution of nutrients throughout the animal's body; it is most visible in the tube feet which can be extended or contracted by the redistribution of fluid between the foot and the internal ampulla.[32][33]

The organisation of the water vascular system is somewhat different in ophiuroids, where the madreporite may be on the oral surface and the podia lack suckers.[34]In holothuroids, the system is reduced, often with few tube feet other than the specialised feeding tentacles, and the madreporite opens on to the coelom. Some holothuroids like the Apodida lack tube feet and canals along the body; others have longitudinal canals.[35]The arrangement in crinoids is similar to that in asteroids, but the tube feet lack suckers and are used in a back-and-forth wafting motion to pass food particles captured by the arms towards the central mouth. In the asteroids, the same motion is employed to move the animal across the ground.[36]

Other organs[edit]

Echinoderms possess a simple digestive system which varies according to the animal's diet. Starfish are mostly carnivorous and have a mouth, oesophagus, two-part stomach, intestine and rectum, with the anus located in the centre of the aboral body surface. With a few exceptions, the members of the orderPaxillosidado not possess an anus.[37][38]In many species of starfish, the large cardiac stomach can be everted to digest food outside the body. Some other species are able to ingest whole food items such asmolluscs.[39]Brittle stars, which have varying diets, have a blind gut with no intestine or anus; they expelfood wastethrough their mouth.[40]Sea urchins are herbivores and use their specialised mouthparts to graze, tear and chew their food, mainlyalgae.They have an oesophagus, a large stomach and a rectum with the anus at the apex of the test.[41]Sea cucumbers are mostlydetritivores,sorting through the sediment with modified tube feet around their mouth, the buccal tentacles. Sand and mud accompanies their food through their simple gut, which has a long coiled intestine and a largecloaca.[42]Crinoids aresuspension feeders,passively catchingplanktonwhich drift into their outstretched arms. Boluses of mucus-trapped food are passed to the mouth, which is linked to the anus by a loop consisting of a short oesophagus and longer intestine.[43]

Thecoelomic cavitiesof echinoderms are complex. Aside from the water vascular system, echinoderms have ahaemal coelom,a perivisceralcoelom, agonadalcoelom and often also a perihaemal coelom.[44]During development, echinoderm coelom is divided into the metacoel, mesocoel and protocoel (also called somatocoel, hydrocoel and axocoel, respectively).[45]The water vascular system, haemal system and perihaemal system form the tubular coelomic system.[46]Echinoderms are unusual in having both a coelomic circulatory system (the water vascular system) and a haemal circulatory system, as most groups of animals have just one of the two.[47]

Haemal and perihaemal systems are derived from the original coelom, forming anopenand reduced circulatory system. This usually consists of a central ring and five radial vessels. There is no trueheart,and the blood often lacks any respiratory pigment. Gaseous exchange occurs via dermal branchiae or papulae in starfish, genital bursae in brittle stars, peristominal gills in sea urchins and cloacal trees in sea cucumbers. Exchange of gases also takes place through the tube feet. Echinoderms lack specialized excretory (waste disposal) organs and sonitrogenous waste,chiefly in the form ofammonia,diffuses out through the respiratory surfaces.[32]

The coelomic fluid contains thecoelomocytes,or immune cells. There are several types of immune cells, which vary among classes and species. All classes possess a type ofphagocyticamebocyte, which engulf invading particles and infected cells, aggregate or clot, and may be involved incytotoxicity.These cells are usually large and granular, and are believed to be a main line of defence against potential pathogens.[48]Depending on the class, echinoderms may havespherulecells (for cytotoxicity, inflammation, and anti-bacterial activity), vibratile cells (for coelomic fluid movement and clotting), and crystal cells (which may serve forosmoregulationin sea cucumbers).[48][49]The coelomocytes secreteantimicrobial peptidesagainst bacteria, and have a set oflectinsandcomplement proteinsas part of aninnate immune systemthat is still being characterised.[50]

Echinoderms have a simple radialnervous systemthat consists of a modifiednerve netof interconnected neurons with no centralbrain,although some do possessganglia.Nerves radiate from central rings around the mouth into each arm or along the body wall; the branches of these nerves coordinate the movements of the organism and the synchronisation of the tube feet. Starfish have sensory cells in the epithelium and have simpleeyespotsand touch-sensitive tentacle-like tube feet at the tips of their arms. Sea urchins have no particular sense organs but do havestatocyststhat assist in gravitational orientation, and they too have sensory cells in their epidermis, particularly in the tube feet, spines andpedicellariae.Brittle stars, crinoids and sea cucumbers in general do not have sensory organs, but some burrowing sea cucumbers of theorderApodidahave a single statocyst adjoining each radial nerve, and some have an eyespot at the base of each tentacle.[51]

Thegonadsat least periodically occupy much of the body cavities of sea urchins[52]and sea cucumbers, while the less voluminous crinoids, brittle stars and starfish have two gonads in each arm. While the ancestors of modern echinoderms are believed to have had one genital aperture, many organisms have multiplegonoporesthrough which eggs or sperm may be released.[51]

Regeneration[edit]

Further information:Starfish regeneration
Sunflower starregenerating several arms

Many echinoderms have great powers ofregeneration.Many species routinelyautotomizeand regenerate arms andviscera.Sea cucumbers often discharge parts of their internal organs if they perceive themselves to be threatened, regenerating them over the course of several months. Sea urchins constantly replace spines lost through damage, while sea stars and sea lilies readily lose and regenerate their arms. In most cases, a single severed arm cannot grow into a new starfish in the absence of at least part of the disc.[53][54][55][56]However, in a few species a single arm can survive and develop into a complete individual, and arms are sometimes intentionally detached for the purpose ofasexual reproduction.[54][55][56]During periods when they have lost their digestive tracts, sea cucumbers live off stored nutrients and absorb dissolved organic matter directly from the water.[57]

The regeneration of lost parts involves bothepimorphosisandmorphallaxis.In epimorphosis stem cells—either from a reserve pool or those produced bydedifferentiation—form ablastemaand generate new tissues. Morphallactic regeneration involves the movement and remodelling of existing tissues to replace lost parts.[58]Directtransdifferentiationof one type of tissue to another during tissue replacement is also observed.[59]

Reproduction[edit]

Sexual reproduction[edit]

Echinoderms become sexually mature after approximately two to three years, depending on the species and the environmental conditions. Almost all species have separatemale and female sexes,though some arehermaphroditic.The eggs and sperm cells are typically released into open water, where fertilisation takes place. The release of sperm and eggs is synchronised in some species, usually with regard to the lunar cycle. In other species, individuals may aggregate during the reproductive season, increasing the likelihood of successful fertilisation. Internal fertilisation has been observed in three species of sea star, three brittle stars and a deep-water sea cucumber. Even atabyssal depths,where no light penetrates, echinoderms often synchronise their reproductive activity.[60]

Some echinodermsbrood their eggs.This is especially common in cold water species where planktonic larvae might not be able to find sufficient food. These retained eggs are usually few in number and are supplied with large yolks to nourish the developing embryos. In starfish, the female may carry the eggs in special pouches, under her arms, under her arched body, or even in her cardiac stomach.[61]Many brittle stars are hermaphrodites; they often brood their eggs, usually in special chambers on their oral surfaces, but sometimes in the ovary or coelom.[62]In these starfish and brittle stars, development is usually direct to the adult form, without passing through a bilateral larval stage.[63]A few sea urchins and one species of sand dollar carry their eggs in cavities, or near their anus, holding them in place with their spines.[64]Some sea cucumbers use their buccal tentacles to transfer their eggs to their underside or back, where they are retained. In a very small number of species, the eggs are retained in the coelom where they developviviparously,later emerging through ruptures in the body wall.[65]In some crinoids, the embryos develop in special breeding bags, where the eggs are held until sperm released by a male happens to find them.[66]

Asexual reproduction[edit]

See also:§ Regeneration
'Comet' form ofLinckia

One species ofseastar,Ophidiaster granifer,reproduces asexually byparthenogenesis.[67]In certain otherasterozoans,adults reproduce asexually until they mature, then reproduce sexually. In most of these species, asexual reproduction is bytransverse fissionwith the disc splitting in two. Both the lost disc area and the missing arms regrow, so an individual may have arms of varying lengths.[56][68]During the period of regrowth, they have a few tiny arms and one large arm, and are thus often known as "comets".[55][69]

Adult sea cucumbers reproduce asexually by transverse fission.Holothuria parvulauses this method frequently, splitting into two a little in front of the midpoint. The two halves each regenerate their missing organs over a period of several months, but the missing genital organs are often very slow to develop.[70]

The larvae of some echinoderms are capable of asexual reproduction. This has long been known to occur among starfish and brittle stars, but has more recently been observed in a sea cucumber, a sand dollar and a sea urchin.[71]This may be byautotomisingparts that develop into secondary larvae, bybudding,or bysplitting transversely.Autotomised parts or buds may develop directly into fully formed larvae, or may pass through agastrulaor even ablastulastage. New larvae can develop from the preoral hood (a mound like structure above the mouth), the side body wall, the postero-lateral arms, or their rear ends.[71][72][73]

Cloning is costly to the larva both in resources and in development time. Larvae undergo this process when food is plentiful[74]or temperature conditions are optimal.[73]Cloning may occur to make use of the tissues that are normally lost during metamorphosis.[75]The larvae of some sand dollars clone themselves when they detect dissolved fish mucus, indicating the presence of predators.[73][75]Asexual reproduction produces many smaller larvae that escape better from planktivorous fish, implying that the mechanism may be an anti-predator adaptation.[76]

Larval development[edit]

Abilaterally symmetricechinopluteus larvawith larval arms

Development begins with a bilaterally symmetrical embryo, with a coeloblastula developing first.Gastrulationmarks the opening of the "second mouth" that places echinoderms within the deuterostomes, and the mesoderm, which will host the skeleton, migrates inwards. The secondary body cavity, the coelom, forms by the partitioning of three body cavities. The larvae are oftenplanktonic,but in some species the eggs are retained inside the female, while in some the female broods the larvae.[77][78]

The larvae pass through several stages, which have specific names derived from the taxonomic names of the adults or from their appearance. For example, a sea urchin has an 'echinopluteus' larva while a brittle star has an 'ophiopluteus' larva. A starfish has a 'bipinnaria' larva, which develops into a multi-armed 'brachiolaria' larva. A sea cucumber's larva is an 'auricularia' while a crinoid's is a 'vitellaria'. All these larvae arebilaterally symmetricaland have bands of cilia with which they swim; some, usually known as 'pluteus' larvae, have arms. When fully developed they settle on the seabed to undergo metamorphosis, and the larval arms and gut degenerate. The left-hand side of the larva develops into the oral surface of the juvenile, while the right side becomes the aboral surface. At this stage the pentaradial symmetry develops.[77][79]

Aplankton-eatinglarva, living and feeding in the water column, is considered to be the ancestral larval type for echinoderms, but in extant echinoderms, some 68% of species develop using ayolk-feedinglarva.[13]The provision of a yolk-sac means that smaller numbers of eggs are produced, the larvae have a shorter development period and a smaller dispersal potential, but a greater chance of survival.[13]

Distribution and habitat[edit]

Echinoderms are globally distributed in almost all depths, latitudes and environments in the ocean. Adults are mainlybenthic,living on the seabed, whereas larvae are oftenpelagic,living as plankton in the open ocean. Some holothuroid adults such asPelagothuriaare however pelagic.[80]Some crinoids are pseudo-planktonic, attaching themselves to floating logs and debris, although this behaviour was exercised most extensively in the Paleozoic, before competition from organisms such as barnacles restricted the extent of the behaviour.[81]

Mode of life[edit]

Locomotion[edit]

Echinoderms use their tube feet to move about. (Colobocentrotus atratusshown)
Further information:Animal locomotion

Echinoderms primarily use their tube feet to move about, though some sea urchins also use their spines. The tube feet typically have a tip shaped like a suction pad in which a vacuum can be created by contraction of muscles. This combines with some stickiness from the secretion ofmucusto provide adhesion. The tube feet contract and relax in waves which move along the adherent surface, and the animal moves slowly along.[82]

Brittle stars are the most agile of the echinoderms. Any one of the arms can form the axis of symmetry, pointing either forwards or back. The animal then moves in a co-ordinated way, propelled by the other four arms. During locomotion, the propelling arms can made either snake-like or rowing movements.[83]Starfish move using their tube feet, keeping their arms almost still, including in genera likePycnopodiawhere the arms are flexible. The oral surface is covered with thousands of tube feet which move out of time with each other, but not in ametachronal rhythm;in some way, however, the tube feet are coordinated, as the animal glides steadily along.[84]Some burrowing starfish have points rather than suckers on their tube feet and they are able to "glide" across the seabed at a faster rate.[85]

Sea urchins use their tube feet to move around in a similar way to starfish. Some also use their articulated spines to push or lever themselves along or lift their oral surfaces off the substrate. If a sea urchin is overturned, it can extend its tube feet in one ambulacral area far enough to bring them within reach of the substrate and then successively attach feet from the adjoining area until it is righted. Some species bore into rock, usually by grinding away at the surface with their mouthparts.[86]

Sea cucumbers like thisNeothyonidium magnumcan burrow using peristaltic movements.

Sea cucumbers are generally sluggish animals. Many can move on the surface of the seabed or burrow through sand or mud usingperistalticmovements; some have short tube feet on their under surface with which they can creep along in the manner of a starfish. Some species drag themselves along using their buccal tentacles, while others manage to swim with peristaltic movements or rhythmic fle xing. Many live in cracks, hollows and burrows and hardly move at all. Some deep-water species arepelagicand can float in the water with webbed papillae forming sails or fins.[87]

The majority of crinoids are motile, but sea lilies are sessile and attached to hard substrates by stalks. Movement in most sea lilies is limited to bending (their stems can bend) and rolling and unrolling their arms; a few species can relocate themselves on the seabed by crawling. The sea feathers are unattached and usually live in crevices, under corals or inside sponges with their arms the only visible part. Some sea feathers emerge at night and perch themselves on nearby eminences to better exploit food-bearing currents. Many species can "walk" across the seabed, raising their body with the help of their arms, or swim using their arms. Most species of sea feather, however, are largely sedentary, seldom moving far from their chosen place of concealment.[88]

Feeding[edit]

The modes of feeding vary greatly between the different echinoderm taxa. Crinoids and some brittle stars tend to be passive filter-feeders,[89][90]enmeshing suspended particles from passing water. Most sea urchins are grazers;[91]sea cucumbers are deposit feeders;[92]and the majority of starfish are active hunters.[93]

Crinoids catch food particles using the tube feet on their outspread pinnules, move them into the ambulacral grooves, wrap them in mucus, and convey them to the mouth using the cilia lining the grooves.[89]The exact dietary requirements of crinoids have been little researched, but in the laboratory, they can be fed with diatoms.[94]

Basket starsare suspension feeders, raising their branched arms to collectzooplankton,while other brittle stars use several methods of feeding. Some are suspension feeders, securing food particles with mucus strands, spines or tube feet on their raised arms. Others are scavengers and detritus feeders. Others again are voraciouscarnivoresand able to lasso their waterborne prey with a sudden encirclement by their flexible arms. The limbs then bend under the disc to transfer the food to the jaws and mouth.[90]

Many sea urchins feed on algae, often scraping off the thin layer of algae covering the surfaces of rocks with their specialised mouthparts known as Aristotle's lantern. Other species devour smaller organisms, which they may catch with their tube feet. They may also feed on dead fish and other animal matter.[91]Sand dollars may perform suspension feeding and feed onphytoplankton,detritus, algal pieces and the bacterial layer surrounding grains of sand.[95]

Sea cucumbers are often mobile deposit or suspension feeders, using their buccal podia to actively capture food and then stuffing the particles individually into their buccal cavities. Others ingest large quantities of sediment, absorb the organic matter and pass the indigestible mineral particles through their guts. In this way they disturb and process large volumes of substrate, often leaving characteristic ridges of sediment on the seabed. Some sea cucumbers live infaunally in burrows, anterior-end down and anus on the surface, swallowing sediment and passing it through their gut. Other burrowers live anterior-end up and wait for detritus to fall into the entrances of the burrows or rake in debris from the surface nearby with their buccal podia.[92]

Nearly all starfish are detritus feeders or carnivores, though a few are suspension feeders. Small fish landing on the upper surface may be captured by pedicilaria and dead animal matter may be scavenged but the main prey items are living invertebrates, mostly bivalve molluscs. To feed on one of these, the starfish moves over it, attaches its tube feet and exerts pressure on the valves by arching its back. When a small gap between the valves is formed, the starfish inserts part of its stomach into the prey, excretes digestiveenzymesand slowly liquefies the soft body parts. As theadductor muscleof the bivalve relaxes, more stomach is inserted and when digestion is complete, the stomach is returned to its usual position in the starfish with its now liquefied bivalve meal inside it. Other starfish evert the stomach to feed on sponges, sea anemones, corals, detritus and algal films.[93]

Antipredator defence[edit]

Many echinoderms, like thisCentrostephanus coronatus,are defended by sharp spines.

Despite their low nutrition value and the abundance of indigestible calcite, echinoderms are preyed upon by many organisms, includingbony fish,sharks,eider ducks,gulls,crabs,gastropod molluscs,other echinoderms,sea otters,Arctic foxesand humans. Larger starfish prey on smaller ones; the great quantity of eggs and larva that they produce form part of thezooplankton,consumed by many marine creatures. Crinoids, on the other hand, are relatively free from predation.[96]

Antipredator defencesinclude the presence of spines, toxins (inherent or delivered through the tube feet), and the discharge of sticky entangling threads by sea cucumbers. Although most echinoderm spines are blunt, those of thecrown-of-thorns starfishare long and sharp and can cause a painful puncture wound as the epithelium covering them contains a toxin.[97]Because of their catch connective tissue, which can change rapidly from a flaccid to a rigid state, echinoderms are very difficult to dislodge from crevices. Some sea cucumbers have a cluster ofcuvierian tubuleswhich can be ejected as long sticky threads from their anus to entangle and permanently disable an attacker. Sea cucumbers occasionally defend themselves by rupturing their body wall and discharging the gut and internal organs.[98]Starfish and brittle stars may undergoautotomywhen attacked, detaching an arm; this may distract the predator for long enough for the animal to escape. Some starfish species can swim away from danger.[99]

Ecology[edit]

A blueLinckiastarfish on acoral reef,a biodiverse ecosystem

Echinoderms are numerous invertebrates whose adults play an important role in benthicecosystems,while the larvae are a major component of the plankton. Among the ecological roles of adults are the grazing of sea urchins, the sediment processing of heart urchins, and the suspension and deposit feeding of crinoids and sea cucumbers.[13][80]Some sea urchins can bore into solid rock, destabilising rock faces and releasing nutrients into the ocean. Coral reefs are also bored into in this way, but the rate of accretion of carbonate material is often greater than the erosion produced by the sea urchin.[100]Echinoderms sequester about 0.1 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide per year ascalcium carbonate,making them important contributors in the globalcarbon cycle.[101]

Echinoderms sometimes have large population swings which can transform ecosystems. In 1983, for example, the mass mortality of the tropical sea urchinDiadema antillarumin the Caribbean caused a change from a coral-dominated reef system to an alga-dominated one.[102]Sea urchins are among the main herbivores on reefs and there is usually a fine balance between the urchins and the kelp and other algae on which they graze. A diminution of the numbers of predators (otters, lobsters and fish) can result in an increase in urchin numbers, causing overgrazing ofkelp forests,resulting in an alga-denuded "urchin barren".[103]On theGreat Barrier Reef,an unexplained increase in the numbers ofcrown-of-thorns starfish(Acanthaster planci), which graze on living coral tissue, has greatly increased coral mortality and reduced coral reefbiodiversity.[104]

Use by humans[edit]

As food and medicine[edit]

Sea urchin being cut open to eat its eggs
Sea cucumbers astraditional Chinese medicine

In 2019, 129,052 tonnes of echinoderms were harvested. The majority of these were sea cucumbers (59,262 tonnes) and sea urchins (66,341 tonnes).[105]These are used mainly for food, but also intraditional Chinese medicine.[106]Sea cucumbers are considered a delicacy in some countries of southeast Asia; as such, they are in imminent danger of being over-harvested.[107]Popular species include the pineapple rollerThelenota ananas(susuhan) and the red sea cucumberHolothuria edulis.These and other species are colloquially known asbêche de merortrepanginChinaandIndonesia.The sea cucumbers are boiled for twenty minutes and then dried both naturally and later over a fire which gives them a smoky tang. In China they are used as a basis for gelatinous soups and stews.[108]Both male and female gonads of sea urchins are consumed, particularly inJapanandFrance.The taste is described as soft and melting, like a mixture of seafood and fruit.[109][110]Sea urchin breeding trials have been undertaken to try to compensate foroverexploitation.[111]

In research[edit]

Because of their robust larval growth, sea urchins are widely used in research, particularly asmodel organismsindevelopmental biologyand ecotoxicology.[112][113][114][115]Strongylocentrotus purpuratusandArbacia punctulataare used for this purpose in embryological studies.[116]The large size and the transparency of the eggs enables the observation ofspermcells in the process of fertilisingova.[112]The arm regeneration potential of brittle stars is being studied in connection with understanding and treatingneurodegenerativediseases in humans.[117]Genomicdata relevant to echinoderm model organisms are collected inEchinobase.[118]

Other uses[edit]

The calcareous tests or shells of echinoderms are used as a source oflimeby farmers in areas wherelimestoneis unavailable and some are used in the manufacture offish meal.[119]Four thousand tons of the animals are used annually for these purposes. This trade is often carried out in conjunction withshellfishfarmers, for whom the starfish pose a major threat by eating their cultured stock. Other uses for the starfish they recover include the manufacture of animal feed, composting and the preparation of dried specimens for the arts and craft trade.[117]

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