Figure 9. Ophiura ophiura postlarval development. A, B, 0.3 in Who's who among baby brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea): postmetamorphic development of some North Atlantic forms

• Main Author: Stöhr, Sabine
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea; Ophiurida; Ophiopyrgidae; Ophiopleura; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5432965; https://zenodo.org/record/5432965

Figure 9. Ophiura ophiura postlarval development. A, B, 0.3 mm dd postlarva; A, dorsal, note the flat disc; B, ventral; C, D, 0.5 mm dd postlarva; C, dorsal, note the high disc, madreporite still dorsal; D, ventral; E, F, 0.7 mm dd postlarva; E, dorsal; F, ventral; G, 1.8 mm dd postlarva dorsal, note the domed central plate (CPP); H, 4 mm dd juvenile dorsal, the central plate is only slightly domed. Abbreviations: as in Figs 1, 3. Scale bars in millimetres. : Published as part of Stöhr, Sabine, 2005, Who's who among baby brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea): postmetamorphic development of some North Atlantic forms, pp. 543-576 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143 (4) on page 559, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00155.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5432948