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Physiological characteristic of echinoderms
Sea urchin shell, or 'test'. Each white band is the location of a row of tube feet; each pair of white bands is called an ambulacrum There are five such ambulacra; the penta-radial symmetry reveals a kinship with sea stars.

In zoology, an ambulacrum is an elongated area of the shell of an echinoderm in which a row of tube feet are arranged. It is pluralized as ambulacra. The area on the shell between ambulacra is known as an interambulacrum.

References

  1. Echinoderms through time. Bruno David, A. Guille, Jean-Pierre Feral. Boca Raton. 2020. ISBN 978-1-000-12367-8. OCLC 1228890101.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. Paul, C. R. C.; Smith, A. B. (November 1984). "The Early Radiation and Phylogeny of Echinoderms". Biological Reviews. 59 (4): 443–481. doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.1984.tb00411.x. ISSN 1464-7931. S2CID 86572427.


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