Patterson, Wiley (2012) Echinoderm and platyhelminthes (animal Phylum). White Word Publications, Delhi, India. ISBN 9788132341239
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Abstract
Extinct Echinoderms (Phylum Echinodermata) are a phylum of marine animals. Echinoderms are found at every ocean depth, from the intertidal zone to the abyssal zone. Aside from the problematic Arkarua, the first definitive members of the phylum appeared near the start of the Cambrian period. The phylum contains about 7,000 living species, making it the second-largest grouping of deuterostomes, after the chordates. Echinoderms are also the largest phylum that has no freshwater or terrestrial representatives The word is derived from the Greek vodipjenta (echinodermata), plural of vekkepua (echinoderma), "spiny skin" from drvo, (echinos), "sea-urchin", originally "hedgehog." and dépuc (donation), "skin". The echinoderms are important both biologically and geologically because few other groupings are so abundant in the biotic desert of the deep sea, as well as the shallower oceans, and geologically as their ossified skeletons are major contributors to many limestone formations, and can provide valuable clues as to the geological environment. Further, it is held by some that the radiation of echinoderms was responsible for the Mesozoic revolution of marine life.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QL Zoology S Agriculture > SF Animal culture |
| Divisions: | Electronic Books |
| Depositing User: | Esam @ Hisham Muhammad |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jan 2023 01:29 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jan 2023 01:29 |
| URI: | http://odlsystem2.utm.my/id/eprint/3844 |
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