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Gorgonocephalidae Ljungman 1867
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Description
Family Gorgonocephalidae Ljungman, 1867
Diagnosis. Arms simple, or branching, coiled. Disc five lobed or circular, covered with skin and/or various shaped external ossicles. Hooklets borne on at least middle to distal portion of aboral arms. Teeth spiniform. Radial shields narrow, multi-layered. Ventral arm plates limited to basal few arm segments. Up to more than ten arm spines. Genital slits usually small, approximately one half of the height of the disc.
Notes
Published as part of Baker, Alan N., Okanishi, Masanori & Pawson, David L., 2018, Euryalid brittle stars from the International Indian Ocean Expedition 1963 - 64 (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Euryalida), pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 4392 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4392.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1194434
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Ljungman
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Order
- Euryalida
- Family
- Gorgonocephalidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gorgonocephalidae Ljungman, 1867 sec. Baker, Okanishi & Pawson, 2018
References
- Ljungman, A. (1867) Ophiuroidea viventia huc usque cognita enumerat. Ofversigt af Kungliga Vetenskapsakademiens forhandlingar, Stockholm, 1866 (9), 303 - 336.