Brisingida

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Brisingida
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Brisingid sea star
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Asteroidea
Superorder: Forcipulatacea
Order: Brisingida
Fisher, 1928
Families

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The Brisingids are deep-sea-dwelling starfish in the order Brisingida. [1] [2]

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Description

These starfish have between 6 and 16 long, attenuated arms which they use for suspension feeding. [3] Other characteristics include a single series of marginals, a fused ring of disc plates, the lack of actinal plates, a spool-like ambulacral column, reduced abactinal plates, and crossed pedicellariae. [4] They are 40 times the size of disk radius and have 7–20 flexible spiny arms. [5]

Distribution

Brisingida occur in a number of deep-sea locations, particularly in the Caribbean and New Zealand. [6]

An orange brisingid on black coral at 1,950 m in California, Davidson Seamount Orange brisingid- noaa expl0961.jpg
An orange brisingid on black coral at 1,950 m in California, Davidson Seamount

This type of species are found of varying size especially in the eastern Pacific Ocean at a depth of 1,820–2,418 m. [5]

Taxonomy

The Brisingida contain two families, with 18 genera: [2]

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References

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  5. 1 2 Zhang; et al. (May 27, 2020). "A new sponge-associated starfish, Astrolirus patricki sp. nov. (Asteroidea: Brisingida: Brisingidae), from the northwestern Pacific seamounts" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-06-03.
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