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1
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What is the Scientific Name of the Icon Star?

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Inconaster Longimanus

2
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What is the Common Name of the Inconaster Longimanus?

A

Icon Start

3
Q

What is the Common Name of the Acanthaster Planci?

A

Crown-Of-Thorns Starfish

4
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What is the Scientific Name of the Crown-Of-Thorns Starfish?

A

Acanthaster Planci

5
Q

What is the Scientific Name of the Flower Urchin?

A

Toxopneustes Pileolus

6
Q

What is the Common Name of the Toxopneustes Pileolus?

A

Flower Urchin

7
Q

What is the Scientific Name of the Prickly Redfish?

A

Thelenota Ananas

8
Q

What is the Common Name of the Thelenota Ananas?

A

Prickly Redfish

9
Q

What is the Scientific Name of the Passion Flower Feather Star?

A

Ptilomentra Australis

10
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What is the Common Name of the Ptilomentra Australis?

A

Passion Flower Feather Star

11
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What is the class of the Passion Flower Feather Star?

A

Crinoidea

12
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What is the class of the Crown-Of-Thorns Starfish?

A

Asteroidea

13
Q

What is the class of the Prickly Redfish?

A

Holothuroidea

14
Q

What is the class of the Icon Star?

A

Asteroidea

15
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What is the class of the Flower Urchin?

A

Echinoidea

16
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How many species does the class Crinoidea have?

A

625

17
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How many species does the class Ophiuroidea have?

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2,000

18
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How many species does the class Asteroidea have?

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1,500

19
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How many species does the class Echinoidea have?

A

940

20
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How many species does the class Holothuroidea have?

A

1,250

21
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What class has about 625 species?

A

Crinoidea

22
Q

What class has about 1,250 species?

A

Holothuroidea

23
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What class has about 940 species?

A

Echinoidea

24
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What class has about 2,000 species?

A

Ophiuroidea

25
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What class has about 1,500 species?

A

Asteroidea

26
Q

What AOTD is known for having this physical trait?

Has arms and a disk that are edged by rows of skeletal plates that provide protection.

A

Icon Star

27
Q

What AOTD is known for having this physical trait?

Have up to 20 arms and a covering of spines.

A

Crown-Of-Thorns Starfish

28
Q

What AOTD is known for having this physical trait?

Have short inconspicuous spines that stick through flower like appendages.

A

Flower Urchin

29
Q

What AOTD is known for having this physical trait?

This strought feather star has 18-20 arms with long, stiff side branches called pinnules.

A

Passion Flower Feather Star

30
Q

What AOTD is known for having this physical trait?

Looks like an animated rug as it moves.

A

Prickly Redfish

31
Q

What AOTD is know for having this behavior?

Eggs have chemicals that deter predators.

A

Icon Star

32
Q

What AOTD is know for having this behavior?

This species has caused extensive damage in the Great Barrier Reed in plague like proportions.

A

Crown-Of-Thorns Starfish

33
Q

What AOTD is know for having this behavior?

May partially bury themselves to hide from predators.

A

Flower Urchin

34
Q

What AOTD is know for having this behavior?

Grips onto sub straits where it sits with its arms spread.

A

Passion Flower Feather Star

35
Q

What AOTD is know for having this behavior?

Has things that make it an unattractive predator.

A

Prickly Redfish

36
Q

What physical trait does the Prickly Redfish have?

A

Looks like an animated rug as it moves.

37
Q

What physical trait does the Passion Flower Feather Star have?

A

This strought feather star has 18-20 arms with long, stiff side branches called pinnules.

38
Q

What physical trait does the Crown-Of-Thorns Starfish have?

A

Have up to 20 arms and a covering of spines.

39
Q

What physical trait does the Flower Urchin have?

A

Have short inconspicuous spines that stick through flower like appendages.

40
Q

What physical trait does the Icon Star have?

A

Has arms and a disk that are edged by rows of skeletal plates that provide protection.

41
Q

What behavioral trait does the Icon Star have?

A

Eggs have chemicals that deter predators.

42
Q

What behavioral trait does the Crown-Of-Thorns Starfish have?

A

This species has caused extensive damage in the Great Barrier Reed in plague like proportions.

43
Q

What behavioral trait does the Flower Urchin have?

A

May partially bury themselves to hide form predators.

44
Q

What behavioral trait does the Passion Flower Feather Star have?

A

Grips onto sub straits where it sits with its arms spread.

45
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What behavioral trait does the Prickly Redfish have?

A

Has things that make it an unattractive predator.