Ophiocoma L. Agassiz, 1835
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4098.2.4 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6067288 |
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Ophiocoma L. Agassiz, 1835 |
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Genus Ophiocoma L. Agassiz, 1835
Ophiocoma is perhaps the most conspicuous and abundant genus of large ophiuroids on coral reefs. It can be subdivided into four groups ( Devaney 1970): (1) SCOLOPENDRINA GROUP: easily recognisable by arm-spines alternating sequentially between three and four; (2) Subgenus Breviturma Stöhr et al. 2013 (i.e. former BREVIPES GROUP): upper arm plates with broadly rounded margins, disc granules closely packed up to the oral shields; (3) PICA GROUP with angular arm plates; (4) PUMILA GROUP with elongated granules on disc and one tentacle scale on all but the first five proximal segments. Currently 23 Ophiocoma species are recognized ( Stöhr et al. 2016).
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