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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...
- ****ociates, 2 ed.(2003) Smith, A. B.; Paterson, G. L. J.; Lafay, B. (1995). "
Ophiuroid phylogeny and
higher taxonomy: morphological,
molecular and palaeontological...
- conodonts, and many
types of
molluscs and echinoderms,
including the
ophiuroids ("brittle stars") and the
first sea stars. Nevertheless, the arthropods...
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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...
- Alexander; Blake,
Daniel B. (April 2004). "Preservation of tube feet in an
ophiuroid (Echinodermata) from the
Lower Devonian Hunsrück
Slate of
Germany and...
- 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...
- 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"...
- 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...
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benthic invertebrates,
including crabs,
small fishes, sea
urchins and
ophiuroids, polychaetes, and gastropods. It is a
protogynous hermaphrodite. These...
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specimens of the
Astrodia cf.
excavata ophiuroid. In the
Caribbean Sea,
Callogorgia gracilis was
found with
ophiuroids from the
genera Asteroschema and Ophiomitra...
