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Question
Write two main characters of the following animal and name the phylum it belongs to: Starfish
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Solution
Starfish belongs to phylum Echinodermata.
Two characters of starfish are:
- Spines found on the body which is covered by calcareous plates.
- Body is star shaped with five radiating areas called ambulacra with inter-ambulacra in between.
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