Figure 1 in Who's who among baby brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea): postmetamorphic development of some North Atlantic forms

• Main Author: Stöhr, Sabine
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea; Euryalida; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5432950

Figure 1. Asteronyx loveni postlarval development, note the thick, partly removed, skin. A, 1.8 mm dd postlarva dorsal; B, arm of same postlarva, note the radial shields; C, same individual ventral, note the large adoral shields; D, 2.5 mm dd postlarva dorsal; E, same individual ventral; F, arm of same individual lateral; G, vertebra proximal face; H, vertebra distal face; I, bulbous terminal plate; J, 3.2 mm postlarva dorsal; K, same ventral; L, arm distal, note the wide terminal plate; M, 4 mm dd postlarva dorsal; N, same ventral; O, arm spines of same; P, 3.2 mm postlarva vertebra proximal face; Q, distal face. Abbreviations: AS, adoral shield; LAP, lateral arm plate; M, madreporite; PP, primary plates; RPP, radial primary plates; RS, radial shield. 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 547, DOI:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00155.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5432948