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BS Media in Zoology

Monday, 05 June 2017 14:13

ECHINODERMATA GENERAL CHARACTERS AND CLASSIFICATION

Echinodermata means spiny skinned animals. This name was first proposed by Jacob Kelin (1734) for echi-noids. It was Leuckert (1847) who first established Echinodermata as a distinct group of the animal kingdom.   They are exclusively marine. They are free living. Some are pelagic. Some are creeping on the sea…