Ophiurida Müller & Troschel, 1840
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https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2018.416 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3816255 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039E87E8-1F67-302D-FEAD-FEC97E21FDEA |
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Valdenar |
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Ophiurida Müller & Troschel, 1840 |
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Order Ophiurida Müller & Troschel, 1840 View in CoL , restricted sensu O’Hara et al. (2017)
Diagnosis
Arms never branching. Spine articulation with muscle opening generally surrounded by ridges and/or knobs and separated from nerve opening by vertical ridge, lateral arm plates generally with external ornamentation (tubercles, striation, spurs). Strong influence of paedomorphosis (Stöhr & Martynov 2016).
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