Brittle star (redirect from Ophiuroidea)
serpent-like arms of the brittle star) are echinoderms in the class Ophiuroidea, closely related to starfish. They crawl across the sea floor using their...
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Asterozoa (section Ophiuroidea)
The subphylum includes the class Asteroidea (the starfish), the class Ophiuroidea (the brittle stars and basket stars), and the extinct order Somasteroidea...
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mesh of collagen fibres. Historically, taxonomists believed that the Ophiuroidea were sister to the Asteroidea as the clade Asterozoa, or that they were...
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Dicyemida Crinoidea (sea lilies and feather stars) Asteroidea (star fish) Ophiuroidea (brittle stars) Echinoidea (sea urchins) Holothuroidea (sea cucumbers)...
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plankton. They are part of the class Ophiuroidea, which is the largest class of echinoderms. The name Ophiuroidea comes from the roots, ophis, meaning snake...
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The Solnhofen Limestone or Solnhofen Plattenkalk is a collective term for multiple Late Jurassic lithographic limestones in southeastern Germany, which...
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Nusplingen Limestone (section Ophiuroidea)
The Nusplingen Limestone (German: Nusplingen Plattenkalk) is a geological formation in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It preserves fossils dating to the Kimmeridgian...
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Ophiuroidea Brittle stars Asteroidea Starfish...
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Melbourne Formation (section Ophiuroidea)
The Melbourne Formation is a geologic formation in Victoria, Australia. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ludlow epoch of the Silurian period. The...
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formosa by T. Mortensen, in Echinoderms of South Africa (Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea), 1933. Mah, C.L. (2018). World Asteroidea Database. Callopatiria formosa...
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The marine waters of the Houtman Abrolhos, an island chain off the coast of Western Australia, has been recorded as containing 172 species of echinoderm...
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Saubach Formation (section Ophiuroidea)
The Saubach Formation is a geological formation in Austria and Germany, dating to about 180–174 million years ago. It was described originally as Saubachschichten...
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This List of echinoderm orders concerns the various classes and orders into which taxonomists categorize the roughly 7000 extant species as well as the...
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Ophiotomidae (category Ophiuroidea stubs)
Ophiotreta Verrill, 1899 Paterson, Gordon L. J. (1985). "The deep-sea Ophiuroidea of the North Atlantic Ocean". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural...
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subphylum includes the two classes of Asteroidea, the starfish, and Ophiuroidea, the brittle stars and basket stars. Asteroids have broad-based arms...
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The taxonomy and phylogeny of species in the order Euryalida and class Ophiuroidea has been ambiguous and continues to be investigated. Euryalid fossils...
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the central disk of a sea star or sea urchin or the oral surface of Ophiuroidea. Close up, it is visibly structured, resembling a "madrepore" (stone...
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Pitkin Formation (section Ophiuroidea, Brittle Stars)
The Pitkin Formation, or Pitkin Limestone, is a fossiliferous geologic formation in northern Arkansas that dates to the Chesterian Series of the late Mississippian...
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Ophiocoma (category Ophiuroidea genera)
Stöhr S, O'Hara T, eds. (2018). "Ophiocoma L. Agassiz, 1836". World Ophiuroidea database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 29 January 2020...
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Long Island Sound is a large marine estuary in the Northeastern United States. It forms the maritime border between New York's Long Island and Connecticut...
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including starfish (Asteroidea), sea urchins, (Echinoidea), brittle stars (Ophiuroidea), sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea) and feather stars (Crinoidea). The largest...
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Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Khler, René (1922), Echinodermata Ophiuroidea, Sydney : Printed by John Spence, acting government printer. Mawson,...
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marine echinoderms including three classes: Asteroidea: true sea stars Ophiuroidea: brittle stars and basket stars Somasteroidea (sometimes also Stomasteroidea):...
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"Size structure of dense populations of the brittle star Ophiura sarsii (Ophiuroidea: Echinodermata) in the bathyal zone around Japan". Marine Ecology Progress...
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Astroboa (category Ophiuroidea genera)
Astroboa is a genus of basket stars in the class Ophiuroidea. These species are included in the genus by the World Register of Marine Species: Astroboa...
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Basket star (category Ophiuroidea)
classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Echinodermata Class: Ophiuroidea Order: Phrynophiurida Suborder: Euryalina Lamarck, 1816 Families Asteronychidae...
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Echinodermata Subphylum Asterozoa Class Asteroidea (starfish) Class Ophiuroidea (brittle stars) Subphylum Blastozoa † Subphylum Crinozoa (sea lillies...
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"Author Interview: A new ophiacanthid brittle star (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) from sublittoral crinoid and seagrass communities of late Maastrichtian...
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John William Salter (section Ophiuroidea)
Urasterella asperrimus Salter 1857. Stenaster salteri Billings, 1858 [Class: Ophiuroidea]. From the Ordovician of Cardin quarry, Simcoe County, Kirkfield, Ontario...
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(Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) Arm Regeneration on Moorea, French Polynesia. eScholarship, University of California. OCLC 1084702158. Biolib Ophiuroidea Data Base...
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