Definition of Ophiuroid. Meaning of Ophiuroid. Synonyms of Ophiuroid

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Definition of Ophiuroid

ophiuroid
Ophiurioid O`phi*u"ri*oid, a. (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to the Ophiurioidea. -- n. One of the Ophiurioidea. [Written also ophiuroid.]

Meaning of Ophiuroid from wikipedia

- Brittle stars, serpent stars, or ophiuroids (from Latin ophiurus 'brittle star'; from Ancient Gr**** ὄφις (óphis) 'serpent' and οὐρά (ourá) 'tail'; referring...
- conodonts, and many types of molluscs and echinoderms, including the ophiuroids ("brittle stars") and the first sea stars. Nevertheless, the arthropods...
- exchange via their water vascular system. The basket stars are the largest ophiuroids with Gorgonocephalus stimpsoni measuring up to 70 cm in arm length with...
- JSTOR 24844596. Girard, F.; Fu, B.; Fisher, CR (2016). "Mutualistic symbiosis with ophiuroids limited the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on deep-sea octocorals"...
- ****ociates, 2 ed.(2003) Smith, A. B.; Paterson, G. L. J.; Lafay, B. (1995). "Ophiuroid phylogeny and higher taxonomy: morphological, molecular and palaeontological...
- The organisation of the water vascular system is somewhat different in ophiuroids, where the madreporite may be on the oral surface and the podia lack suckers...
- also contains some protein and high levels of pot****ium salts.: 933–939  Ophiuroids, the group including brittle stars and basket stars, have a somewhat different...
- Alexander; Blake, Daniel B. (April 2004). "Preservation of tube feet in an ophiuroid (Echinodermata) from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate of Germany and...
- (/ˌæstəˈrɔɪdiə/). Common usage frequently finds these names being also applied to ophiuroids, which are correctly referred to as brittle stars or basket stars. Starfish...
- p. 8. Harper, John A.; Morris, Robert W. (1978). "A New Encrinasterid Ophiuroid from the Conemaugh Group (Pennsylvanian) of Western Pennsylvania, and...