PBS The Shape of Life Disc 4: Ultimate Animal (Echinoderms) (2002)

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10:00 Rainbow Sea Star has 5-part symmetry 10:35 Sea Urchin has 5-part sphere 10:45 Sea Cucumber has 5-part tube
11:50 Nerve ring 13:30 Purple Sea Urchins feed on Giant Kelp , leaving barren plain (California coast) 16:45 Sea Cucumber feeds on sand and excretes
19:15 Leopard Sea Cuke defends with poison strands ejected from anus 19:50 Spiny Brittle Star can jettison arms as decoys, form dense Brittle Star carpet 29:00 Bat Stars fight for dominance
32:00Sea Stars use skin gills for breathing; use tube feet for locomotion; water drawn through sieve plate (madreporite ) into radial canals; light-sensing receptor at tip of arm 35:30 Giant Sea Star climbs pylon to attack mussels, digests with extended stomach to digest prey (Big Sur, California) 40:50 Sunflower Starfish chases snail
48:20 Feather Star (Comatulid crinoid) (Eastbourne, England)      
Orthasterias koehleri
10:00 Rainbow Sea Star has 5-part symmetry
Echinoidea
10:35 Sea Urchin has 5-part sphere
Holothuroidea
10:45 Sea Cucumber has 5-part tube
nerve
11:50 Nerve ring
Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
13:30 Purple Sea Urchins
Macrocystis pyrifera
13:30 Giant Kelp
barren
13:30 barren plain
Holothuroidea
16:45 Sea Cucumber feeds on sand and excretes
Bohadschia argus
19:15 Leopard Sea Cuke defends with poison strands ejected from anus
Ophiotrix spiculata
19:50 Spiny Brittle Star
Brittle Star
19:50 Brittle Star carpet
Asterina miniata
29:00 Bat Stars fight for dominance
skin
32:00 skin gills
tube
32:00 tube feet
sieve
32:00 sieve plate (madreporite )
light
32:00 light-sensing receptor at tip of arm
Pisaster giganteus
35:30 Giant Sea Star climbs pylon to attack mussels,
stomach
35:30 digests with extended stomach
stomach
35:30 digest prey
Pycnopodia helianthoides
40:50 Sunflower Starfish
Crinoidea
48:20 Feather Star (Comatulid crinoid)

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