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Ambulacral is a term
typically used in the
context of
anatomical parts of the
phylum Echinodermata or
class Asteroidea and Edrioasteroidea. Echinoderms...
- Echinozoans,
there are five
ambulacra separated by five
ambulacral grooves, the interambulacra. The
ambulacral grooves bear four rows of tube feet but
these are...
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skeletal support is
provided by the
calcareous plates called ossicles or
ambulacral plates in the body wall.
These are
joined with
muscular and connective...
- more
radial canals extend from the ring canal, one in each arm
above the
ambulacral groove. From the
radial canals extend many
lateral canals, each of which...
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Other terms sometimes used to
refer to the
water vascular system are "
ambulacral system" and "aquiferous system". In the past, "aquiferous system" was...
- test grow as the
animal does. The test is rigid, and
divides into five
ambulacral grooves separated by five
wider interambulacral areas. Each of
these ten...
- set of
radial canals leads off this; one
radial canal runs
along the
ambulacral groove in each arm.
There are
short lateral canals branching off alternately...
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asteroids extend along the arms, and in
echinoids adjoin the test in the
ambulacral areas.
Short lateral canals branch off the
radial canals, each one ending...
- The **** lay on the side of the body. Five, or less
commonly three,
ambulacral areas ran
along the
outside of the body,
radiating outwards from the mouth...
- 1=pa**** and paxilla, 2=superomarginal plate, 3=inferomarginal plate, 4=
ambulacral plates, 5=adambulacral
plate Ossicles of an
Astropecten aranciacus Armtip...
