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Starfish or sea stars are a class of echinoderms generally shaped like a star polygon. (In common usage, these names are also often applied to ophiuroids, which are correctly referred to as brittle stars or basket stars.) Starfish are also known as asteroids because they form the taxonomic class Asteroidea (/ˌæstəˈrɔɪdiə/). About 1,900 species of…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Starfish | is a | hydraulic system made up of a network of fluid-filled canals and is concerned with locomotion | 0.90 | text |
| the madreporite | instance of | Some are specialised structures | 0.80 | text |
| food | instance of | enabling the starfish to detect odour sources | 0.80 | text |
| heme | instance of | Blood does not contain a pigment | 0.80 | text |
| but is probably used to transport nutrients around the body | instance of | Blood does not contain a pigment | 0.80 | text |
| Nepanthia belcheri | instance of | In some species | 0.80 | text |
| a large female can split in half | instance of | In some species | 0.80 | text |
| the resulting offspring are males | instance of | In some species | 0.80 | text |
| fish | instance of | which may attract larger organisms | 0.80 | text |
| crabs | instance of | which may attract larger organisms | 0.80 | text |
| sea urchins that feed on the sediment.Starfish sometimes have negative effects on ecosystems | instance of | which may attract larger organisms | 0.80 | text |
| tetrodotoxin | instance of | Some starfish such as Astropecten polyacanthus also include powerful toxins | 0.80 | text |
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