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Brittle stars,
serpent stars, or
ophiuroids (from
Latin ophiurus 'brittle star'; from
Ancient Gr**** ὄφις (óphis) 'serpent' and οὐρά (ourá) 'tail'; referring...
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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...
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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...
- ****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...
- (/ˌæstəˈrɔɪdiə/).
Common usage frequently finds these names being also
applied to
ophiuroids,
which are
correctly referred to as
brittle stars or
basket stars. Starfish...
- conodonts, and many
types of
molluscs and echinoderms,
including the
ophiuroids ("brittle stars") and the
first sea stars. Nevertheless, the arthropods...
- Alexander; Blake,
Daniel B. (April 2004). "Preservation of tube feet in an
ophiuroid (Echinodermata) from the
Lower Devonian Hunsrück
Slate of
Germany and...
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stenuroids are
distinguished from each
other and from the
extant asteroids and
ophiuroids by the
arrangements of a
specific type of
ossicle known as virgals: Somasteroids...
- Information".
Fossil Guy. Martin-Medrano, L.; Garcia-Barrera, P. (2006). "Fossil
Ophiuroids of Mexico". In F. J. Vega; T. G. Nybor; M. D. C. Perrillat; M. Montellano-Ballesteros;...
