Figure 17. Ophiocomina nigra postlarval development. A, B, two 0.7 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; Ophiacanthida; Ophiotomidae; Ophiocomina; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5432981; https://zenodo.org/record/5432981

Figure 17. Ophiocomina nigra postlarval development. A, B, two 0.7 mm dd postlarva dorsal, note that only one has secondary inter-radial plates (SIR); C, 0.7 mm dd postlarva ventral; D, E, 0.9 mm dd postlarvae; D, dorsal; E, ventral; F–H, 1.4 mm dd postlarvae; F, dorsal; G, arm dorsal; H, ventral; I–K, 1.6 mm dd postlarva; I, jaw, note the scale-like adoral shield spine (ASS) and the second smaller scale proximal to it; J, arm spines, note the serrated edges; K, disc granules are strongly rugose; L, 2.4 mm juvenile; M, 3 mm dd juvenile. Abbreviations: as in Figs 1–3, 10. 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 571, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00155.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5432948