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Definition of Class ophiuroidea
1. Noun. Brittle stars and basket stars.
Group relationships: Echinodermata, Phylum Echinodermata
Member holonyms: Ophiurida, Subclass Ophiurida, Euryalida, Subclass Euryalida
Generic synonyms: Class
Literary usage of Class ophiuroidea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Laboratory Manual for Elementary Zoölogy by Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1919)
"class ophiuroidea 6 (5). Rays broad, not sharply separated from the disk.
Class Asteroidea 7 (4). Not star-shaped; spherical, oval, or flattened disks; ..."
2. A Text-book of Invertebrate Morphology by James Playfair McMurrich (1896)
"Class OPHIUROIDEA.—Free forms ; stellate in shape ; arms not containing caeca!
processes of the digestive tract; ambulacra limited to oral surface ..."
3. Economic Zoology: An Introductory Text-book in Zoology, with Special by Herbert Osborn (1908)
"class ophiuroidea Brittle Star. —Members of this group resemble quite closely
the starfish, but differ in having the arms much more slender and cylindrical ..."
4. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"The brittle-stars belong to the class Ophiuroidea (Gr. ophis, snake; our a, tail;
eidos, likeness). They differ from the FIG. 35. ..."
5. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1904)
"resent several other species in addition to those here described, but are not
sufficiently well preserved for identification. class ophiuroidea. ..."
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