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  ADW: Ophiuroidea: Information
They are found in all seas, at all latitudes, and from the intertidal to the abyssal zone (to a depth of 6,000 meters).
Class Ophiuroidea, pages 89-195 in Sea Stars, Sea Urchins, and Allies.
Hyman, L. Class Ophiuroidea, pages 589-689 in The Invertebrates volume IV: Echinodermata.
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /site/accounts/information/Ophiuroidea.html   (649 words)

  
 Brittle stars (Ophiuroidea) on Chek Jawa, Pulau Ubin, Singapore
The Ophiuroidea: brittle stars and baskets stars by Susan Hottenrott who delivers on her promise to bring you the very latest in ophiuroid technology, news and gossip, from basic fact sheets to the latest scientific findings, fabulous photos and lots of links.
Ophiuroidea on Biomedia of the Glasgow University Zoological Museum on the Biological Sciences, University of Paisley, Scotland website: a brief introduction.
Ophiuroidea from Bio 136 on the University of California, Santa Cruz website: labelled diagram of a brittle star including a cross-section through an arm.
www.wildsingapore.com /chekjawa/text/c601.htm   (1001 words)

  
 Palaeos Invertebrates: Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea
Of all echinoderms, the Ophiuroidea may have the strongest tendency toward 5-segment radial (pentaradial) symmetry.
The body outline is similar to the Asteroidea, in that ophiuroids have five arms joined to a central disk (calyx).
Basket stars, in particular may be capable of suspension feeding, using their mucous covering the branched arms to trap plankton and bacteria.
www.palaeos.com /Invertebrates/Echinoderms/Ophiuroidea/Ophiuroidea.htm   (721 words)

  
 Bibliography of F. H. C. Hotchkiss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Washington, D. (1993): A new Devonian ophiuroid (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) from New York State and its bearing on the origin of ophiuroid upper arm plates.
HOTCHKISS, F. (1999a): Isolated skeletal ossicles of a new brittlestar of the Family Cheiropterasteridae Spencer, 1934 (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) in the Lower Devonian of Bohemia (Czech Republic).
HOTCHKISS, F. (1999b): Isolated vertebrae of brittlestars of the Family Klasmuridae Spencer, 1925 (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) in the Devonian of Bohemia (Czech Republic).
www.natur.cuni.cz /~vpetr/Fred.htm   (560 words)

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