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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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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...
- 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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fossils found in
marine sedimentary rocks. They
record the
burrows of
ophiuroid and
asteroid sea
stars on the sea floor.
Asteriacites are
found in European...
- Alexander; Blake,
Daniel B. (April 2004). "Preservation of tube feet in an
ophiuroid (Echinodermata) from the
Lower Devonian Hunsrück
Slate of
Germany and...
- 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"...
- 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...
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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...
