Ophiurida

Ophiurida
Temporal range: Devonian– Present [1]
Ophiura ophiura
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Ophiuroidea
Order: Ophiurida
Müller and Troschel, 1840
Suborders

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The Ophiurida are an order of echinoderms within the class Ophiuroidea. It includes the vast majority of living brittle stars.

Characteristics

Ophiurida have bursae for respiration and excretion, and dorsal and ventral arm shields are present and usually well developed. Arms are unbranched and incapable of coiling vertically. Most are five-armed, some with 4 or 6 arms as an abnormality, but others properly bear six or seven arms. The madreporite is on the oral surface. The digestive glands are entirely within the central disc.[2] They move their arms side to side by means of ball-and-socket joints. Tropical species tend to contrast color from the environment, but most others prefer to blend in. These biochromes do not include echinochromes.

Systematics and phylogeny

There is currently no consensus as to the subdivision of the Ophiurida. The order has been divided into the following suborders and infraorders [3]

Another classification scheme divides it into the following suborders:[4]

Another classification scheme divides it as:[5]

Ecology

Ophiurida have a world-wide distribution range and are found in oceans in different depths. Most of them are herbivores or detritus feeders.

References

  1. ^ E.Clarkson, E.N.K. Clarkson, Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution. Wiley-Blackwell; 4.ed. (1998)
  2. ^ R.C.Brusca, G.J.Brusca. Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates, 2 ed.(2003)
  3. ^ Smith, A. B.; Paterson, G. L. J.; Lafay, B. (1995). "Ophiuroid phylogeny and higher taxonomy: morphological, molecular and palaeontological perspectives". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 114 (2): 213–243. doi:10.1006/zjls.1995.0024.
  4. ^ European Register of Marine Species
  5. ^ "Mikko's Phylogeny Archive". Archived from the original on 2007-11-02. Retrieved 2008-01-09.

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  1. ^ Thuy, Ben; Kutscher, Manfred; Płachno, Bartosz (2014). "A new brittle star from the Early Carboniferous of Poland and its implications on Paleozoic modern-type ophiuroid systematics". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. doi:10.4202/app.00093.2014.

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