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Brisingida
Brisingid sea star
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Asteroidea
Superorder: Forcipulatacea
Order: Brisingida
Fisher, 1928
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The Brisingids are deep-sea-dwelling starfish in the order Brisingida.[1][2]

Description

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These starfish have between 6 and 16 long, attenuated arms which they use for suspension feeding.[3] Other characteristics include a single series of marginals, a fused ring of disc plates, the lack of actinal plates, a spool-like ambulacral column, reduced abactinal plates, and crossed pedicellariae.[4] They are 40 times the size of disk radius and have 7–20 flexible spiny arms.[5]

Distribution

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Brisingida occur in a number of deep-sea locations, particularly in the Caribbean and New Zealand.[6]

An orange brisingid on black coral at 1,950 m in California, Davidson Seamount

This type of species are found of varying size especially in the eastern Pacific Ocean at a depth of 1,820–2,418 m.[5]

Taxonomy

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The Brisingida contain two families, with 18 genera:[2]

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