Who's who among baby brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea): Postmetamorphic development of some North Atlantic forms

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 543-576

  Stöhr, Sabine ^a  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Growth series; Morphology; Ontogenesis; Postlarvae; SEM; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AMPHIURA BOREALIS; AMPHIURA CHIAJEI; AMPHIURA FILIFORMIS; ASTERONYX LOVENI; CLAVIGERA; ECHINODERMATA; OPHIACANTHA ANOMALA; OPHIOCOMINA NIGRA; OPHIOLIMNA BAIRDI; OPHIOMITRELLA CLAVIGERA; OPHIOPLEURA BOREALIS; OPHIOPUS; OPHIOSCOLEX GLACIALIS; OPHIOSCOLEX PURPUREUS; OPHIOTHRIX FRAGILIS; OPHIURA ALBIDA; OPHIURA OPHIURA; OPHIURA ROBUSTA; OPHIUROIDEA;

EID: 17444428669     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00155.x     Document Type: Article

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