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Amphiuridae
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Amphiuridae (commonly called long-armed burrowing brittle stars or burrowing brittle stars) are a large family of brittle stars of the suborder Gnathophiurina. Some species are used to study echinoderm development (e.g. Amphipholis kochii and Amphioplus abditus) and bioluminescence (the dwarf brittle star, Amphipholis squamata).
Species
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FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumEchinodermata
- ClassOphiuroidea
- OrderAmphilepidida
- FamilyAmphiuridae
De Amphiuridae zijn een familie van slangsterren uit de orde Ophiurida.
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,306
- With media
- 280
- Family
- Amphiuridae
- Collections
- CAS, NMV
- Recorded in
- United States, Brazil, Mexico, Comoro Islands [Comoros], Seychelles, Samoa [= Western Samoa], Australia
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Characteristics
- Systematics and phylogeny
- Ecology
- References
Amphiuridae (commonly called long-armed burrowing brittle stars or burrowing brittle stars) are a large family of brittle stars of the suborder Gnathophiurina. Some species are used to study echinoderm development (e.g. Amphipholis kochii and Amphioplus abditus) and bioluminescence (the dwarf brittle star, Amphipholis squamata).
==Characteristics== Amphiuridae are generally small brittlestars. Their jaws are always with two apical papillae at the tip, and one or more papillae on each side.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amphiuridae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.