Asteronychidae Verrill, 1899

Baker, Alan N., Okanishi, Masanori & Pawson, David L., 2018, Euryalid brittle stars from the International Indian Ocean Expedition 1963 - 64 (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Euryalida), Zootaxa 4392 (1), pp. 1-27 : 7

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4392.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5958797
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scientific name	Asteronychidae Verrill, 1899
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Treatment

Family Asteronychidae Verrill, 1899 View in CoL

Diagnosis. Arms simple, coiled. Disc five lobed or circular, covered with skin and/or plate-shaped external ossicles. Teeth spiniform, covering whole side of jaw. Radial shields narrow, multi-layered. Ventral arm plates limited to a few basal arm segments. Up to more than ten arm spines. Genital slits usually small, half the length of the height of the disc.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Echinodermata
Class	Ophiuroidea
Order	Euryalida
Family	Asteronychidae

Specimens

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