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Towards a Better Understanding of the Origins of Microlens Arrays in Mesozoic Ophiuroids and Asteroids [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Echinoderms are characterized by a calcite endoskeleton with a unique microstructure, which is optimized for multiple functions. For instance, some light-sensitive ophiuroids (Ophiuroidea) and asteroids (Asteroidea) possess skeletal plates with multi ...
Imran A. Rahman   +21 more
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Some rare fossils from Slovenske gorice, Slovenia

open access: yesGeologija, 2014
This contribution presents remains of very rare bivalves from Miocene beds of Meljski hrib, Vukovski dol and surroundings of Lenart in Slovenske gorice.
Vasja Mikuž, Rok Gašparič
doaj   +1 more source

An investigation into the diet of elephant fish (Callorhinchus milii) in the waters of Aotearoa/New Zealand. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Fish Biol
Abstract Chondrichthyans (sharks, rays and chimaeras) are increasingly understood to be an important part of ocean ecosystems, but their ecological role is unclear. Callorhinchus milii (elephant fish) is a chimaera species endemic to Aotearoa/New Zealand and southern Australian waters.
Cooper KUC   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Ophiuroid Family IDentification key

open access: yes, 2021
For more info, please see "Goharimanesh, M., Stöhr, S., Mirshamsi, O., Ghassemzadeh, F., & Adriaens, D. (2021). Interactive identification key to all brittle star families (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) leads to revised morphological descriptions. European Journal of Taxonomy, 766, 1-63."
Goharimanesh, Mona   +4 more
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Observations of the ophiuroids from the West Antarctic sector of the Southern Ocean [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Ophiuroids are a conspicuous and often dominant component of the Antarctic continental shelf benthos. Here we report on the ophiuroids collected from the Burdwood Bank, off the Patagonian Shelf, through the shallow water areas of the Scotia Arc, down the
Linse, K.   +17 more
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Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea, Gorgonocephalus Leach, 1815: first report of the genus for the Brazilian continental margin [PDF]

open access: yesCheck List, 2010
The Gorgonocephalidae includes 38 genera, five of them reported for Brazilian waters. Gorgonocephalus chilensis has a wide distribution throughout Antartica and Subantartican regions and its northern limit was restricted to the coast of Uruguay.
Carlos Barboza   +3 more
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Ophiuroids of Soviet Seas [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1968
Ophiuroids of the USSR Seas By A. M. D'yakonov Edited by A. A. Strelkov. Translated from the Russian by R. Finesilver. (Keys to the Fauna of the USSR, No. 55.) Pp. ix + 123. (Israel Program for Scientific Translations: Jerusalem, 1967. Distributed by H. A. Humphrey, London.) 55s.
openaire   +1 more source

New data on brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea, Iran [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 2021
Brittle stars are one of the most diverse classes of echinoderms distributed worldwide in marine habitats. In this study, brittle stars were sampled by hand from the intertidal zone of the Persian Gulf's western part to the Oman Sea, from locations ...
Mona Goharimanesh   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ophiuroids from the Upper Jurassic of Kuyavia and the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, Poland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Ophiuroids from the Upper Jurassic marine deposits (upper Oxfordian-lower Kimmeridgian) of southern and north-western Poland have been studied in two sections: Zalas quarry in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland in southern Poland and Wapienno/Bielawy quarries
Loba, Michał, Radwańska, Urszula
core   +1 more source

Brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) of coastal lagoons from the northern Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

open access: yesRevista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2019
We present the first records of ophiuroids found in 6 tropical coastal lagoons of the northern Yucatán Peninsula. Specimens were collected from Ría Celestún, Chelem, Dzilam, Ría Lagartos, Yalahau, and Nichupté-Bojórquez lagoons, during May and June 2010.
José Gabriel Kuk-Dzul   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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