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Ophionereidoidea Ljungman 1867

Description

Superfamily Ophionereidoidea Ljungman, 1867

Diagnosis

Disc with numerous thin scales and few plates, partially covered by scales, indistinct primary plates, no granules or spines. Large spine articulations not sunken in depressions of distal plate edge. Lateral arm plates with a band of more finely meshed stereom only in the central part of the outer proximal edge.

Notes

Published as part of Stöhr, Sabine, Hugall, Andrew F., Thuy, Ben & Martynov, Alexander, 2018, Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification, pp. 1-35 in European Journal of Taxonomy 416 on page 18, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.416, http://zenodo.org/record/3806109

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Ljungman
Kingdom
Animalia
Taxon rank
superFamily
Taxonomic concept label
Ophionereidoidea Ljungman, 1867 sec. Stöhr, Hugall, Thuy & Martynov, 2018

References

  • Ljungman A. V. 1867. Ophiuroidea viventia huc usque cognita. Ofversigt af Kungliga Vetenskaps- Akademiens Forhandlingar 1866 23: 303 - 336.