Brisingida

Brisingida
Brisingid sea star
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Echinodermata
Subphylum:	Eleutherozoa
Class:	Asteroidea
Superorder:	Forcipulatacea
Order:	Brisingida Fisher, 1928
Families
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The Brisingids are deep-sea-dwelling starfish in the order Brisingida.

These starfish have between six and 18 long, attenuated arms which they use for suspension feeding. 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.

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

The Brisingida contain two families, with 18 genera:

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