brittle-stars in English

noun

1

an echinoderm related to the starfish, with long, thin, flexible arms radiating from a small central disk.

But the flowers are not flowers at all, they are crinoids, animals whose closest relatives include the starfish, brittlestars , sea urchins and sea cucumbers - the echinoderms.

Use "brittle-stars" in a sentence

1. “Brittle stars,” relatives of the starfish, sometime litter the ocean floor.

2. Crinoids are echinoderms related to starfish, sea urchins, and brittle stars

3. Starfish, oysters, clams, sea cucumbers, brittle stars and anemone are all Benthos

4. Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea (brittle stars) are sister taxa and together comprise the Asterozoa clade.

5. Shrimp, anemones, and brittle stars dominate, but their numbers are few, their biomass small.

6. Some 178 species live in the holdfasts alone —crabs, nudibranchs, brittle stars, worms, and others.

7. 16 Shrimp, anemones, and brittle stars dominate, but their numbers are few, their biomass small.

8. The major components of the megafauna are brittle stars bathyally, large scavenging fish and amphipods Abyssally, and amphipods hadally.

9. The major components of the megafauna are brittle stars bathyally, large scavenging fish and amphipods Abyssally, and amphipods hadally

10. The starfish along with sea urchins and relatives including feather stars, brittle stars, basket stars, sea daisies, sea lilies, and sea cucumbers make up the Phylum Echinodermata.

11. The Asteroidea are known as the "true stars," and are in a separate class from the brittle stars, which have a more defined separation between their arms and their central disk.

12. Like their relatives—starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, and brittle stars—Crinoids are echinoderms, animals with rough, spiny surfaces and a special kind of radial symmetry based on five or multiples of five