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Swimming ophiuroids-real and imagined
| Title: | Swimming ophiuroids-real and imagined. |
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| Name(s): |
Hendler, Gordon Miller, John E. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Date Issued: | 1991 | |
| Publisher: | A. A. Balkema. | |
| Place of Publication: | Brookfield, VT | |
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| Extent: | 13 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | FA00007378 (IID) | |
| Note(s): |
Using a research submersible, swimming behavior was discovered in 4 bathyal
Bahamian-Caribbean ophiuroids: Ophiuroconis miliaria, Ophiothrix sp., Ophiocirce
antillarum and Ophiernus adspersus. The skeletal ossicles of swimming ophiuroids are
thinner and more porous than non-swimmers' ossicles, and swimmers' intervertebral
articulations increase arm flexibility and the attachment surface for muscle tissue. The
feather-spines of o. adspersus, described for the first time, are homologous to accessory arm spines of the mid-Jurassic Ophiopinna elegans, which is suggested to be a swimming
ophioleucid. Accessory spines of Ophioleucidae are suggested to aid in swimming. Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution 822 This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available and may be cited as: Hendler, G., & Miller, J. E. (1991). Swimming ophiuroids-real and imagined. In T. Yanagisawa, I. Yasumasu, C. Oguro, N. Suzuki, & T. Motokawa (Eds.), Biology of Echinodermata: proceedings of the seventh International Echinoderm Conference, Atami, 9-14 September 1990 (pp. 179-190). Rotterdam; Brookfield, VT: Balkema. |
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| Subject(s): |
Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Swimming |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007378 | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
