Figure 12. Amphiura chiajei postlarval development. A, B, 0.4 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: 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea; Amphilepidida; Amphiuridae; Amphiura; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5432972; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5432972

Figure 12. Amphiura chiajei postlarval development. A, B, 0.4 mm dd postlarvae; A, dorsal, note the large fenestrations of the primary plates; B, ventral; C, D, 0.6 mm dd postlarvae; C, dorsal; D, ventral; E, F, 0.9 mm dd postlarva, E, dorsal, note the inter-radial plates (IR); F, ventral, note the infradental papillae (IP = MP2) on the dental plate (DP); G, H, 1.4 mm dd postlarvae; G, dorsal, note the k-plate (k); H, ventral, the adoral shield spine (ASS) has transformed into a flat scale; I, J, 2.0 mm postlarvae; I, dorsal; J, ventral, IP have moved onto oral plates; K–M, 2.4 mm dd juvenile; K, arm ventral, note the tentacle scales (TS); L, ventral; M, dorsal; N, O, 3 mm dd juvenile; N, dorsal; O, ventral. Abbreviations: as in Figs 1–3, 5. 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 564, DOI:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00155.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5432948