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Echinoderm skeleton showing beautifully the 5-symmetric array of attachments for spines (not shown here) that give the group its name (Greek for Spiny-Skin). But the animal as a whole is round, indeed nearly spherical, and in life is not obviously 5-symmetric at all.....
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