Ophiurida Müller & Troschel, 1840

Stöhr, Sabine, Hugall, Andrew F., Thuy, Ben & Martynov, Alexander, 2018, Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification, European Journal of Taxonomy 416, pp. 1-35 : 8

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2018.416
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3816255
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scientific name	Ophiurida Müller & Troschel, 1840
status

Treatment

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).