Chapter 25 Web Links

Chapter 25 The Echinoderms

Phylum Echinodermata. Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan. Information about echinoderms, with links to various groups of echinoderms. Nice pictures: check out the magnificent urchin, Astrophyga magnifica. It’s obvious why it was named!

Introduction to the Echinodermata. University of California at Berkeley Museum of Paleontology. This site provides information on the echinoderm fossil record, life histories, systematics, and morphology. It also provides a great number of links to sites that focus on each of the echinoderm classes.

The CAS Echinoderm Webpage. This site provides information on echinoderm taxonomy and on the echinoderm collection of the California Academy of Science. It also provides links to other echinoderm sites.

The Echinoderm Newsletter. This newsletter, prepared by the National Museum of Natural History, provides information on conferences and publications on echinoderms, and gives addresses of biologists studying echinoderms.

Echinodermata. Arizona's Tree of Life Web Page. Pictures, characteristics, phylogenetic relationships, references on echinoderms.

Phylum Echinodermata. From the University of Minnesota, information about echinoderms, and a link to the sea star dissection home page.

Starfish. Information on external and Internal Anatomy

Starfish Dissection Guide. A guide only, no photographs or diagrams, yet there is much material on taxonomy, and description of structure and function.

Echinoderms. Keys to Marine Invertebrates of the Woods Hole Region. Descriptive information, definition of terminology, and keys to the echinoderms of the Woods Hole Region.

Echinoderms (U. Minnesota). Information about echinoderms, and a link to the sea star dissection home page.

Lesser-known Invertebrate Phyla

Brachiopoda. Arizona's Tree of Life Web Page. Pictures, characteristics, phylogenetic relationships, references on this group of lophophorates. References on brachiopods.

Introduction to the Brachiopoda. University of California at Berkeley Museum of Paleontology. Links to the fossil record, life history and ecology, systematics, and more on morphology.

Introduction to the Bryozoa. University of California at Berkeley Museum of Paleontology. Links to the fossil record, life history and ecology, systematics, and more on morphology.

Introduction to the Onychophora. This University of California at Berkeley Museum of Paleontology site contains information on the onychophorans, which may share an ancestor with the arthropods. Links to the fossil record, life history and ecology, systematics, and more on morphology.

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