1. Their bodies are unsegmented, cylindrical or spherical or star-shaped or flower-shaped.
2. Their body is bilaterally symmetrical or pentalaterally symmetrical or orally symmetrical or divided into five equal parts.
3. Body skin prickly. The exoskeleton is composed of numerous ossicles composed of spines and pedicellaries and the endoskeleton composed of calcium carbonate. It is covered by ciliated membranes.
4. The body is organized into distinct verbal and non-verbal levels. Five ambulacral grooves are present on the oral floor.
5. They have a water circulatory system, which carries out respiration and locomotion.
6. There are ring vessels, radial canals, medriporites, stone canals and lateral canals for water transport.
7. Their moving parts are podia. It is responsible for respiration and food absorption.
8. The Himalayan and Perihimalayantra work on circulation.
9. The body does not have a brain, respiratory system, excretory system and circulatory system.
10. All animals are marine.
11. The life cycle consists of bipinaria, auricularia, ophiopluteus, echinopluteus larvae.