Echinoderms / Biscuit Star

Echinoderms are an exclusively marine group of animals that have radial symmetry, water filled spaces in their bodies, and many have sucker like tube feet. The group includes well known marine creatures such as seastars and sea urchins as well as feather stars, sea cucumbers, and brittle stars which are less often seen but reasonably common subtidally.

biscuit star

Phylum: Echinoderms Class: Asteroidea Species: Pentagonaster dubeni
Feeding mainly on sponges, bryozoans and other attached invertebrates Biscuit Stars are reasonably common sub-tidal animals. Their bodies are made of a series of hard plates joined by an outer skin.