Ophioderma appressa
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Ordo: Ophiurida
Familia: Ophiodermatidae
Genus: Ophioderma
Name
Ophioderma appressa (Say, 1825) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Description
Disk circular to pentagonal (dd = 4.18 to 7.89 mm), covered by small granules (Fig. 13a). Radial shields oval and covered with granules (Fig. 13a). Ventral interradius covered by similar granules. Four short bursal slits (Fig. 13b). Oral shields oval (Fig. 13c). Adoral shields broadened laterally, not covered by granules (Fig. 13c). Seven or eight oral papillae on each side of jaw angle (Fig. 13c), the three proximal ones small and elongated the last one narrow and partially covered by the previous papilla. Single apical papillae. Dorsal arm plate longer than wide, with distal margin rounded (Fig. 13e). Seven small, compressed, arm spines, the ventralmost one partially covered by outer tentacle scale. Two tentacle scales, the inner one longest (Fig. 13d).
Distribution
Western Atlantic from Bermuda, South Carolina, the islands off southern Florida, Texas offshore reefs, the Bahamas, the Antilles, Mexican Caribbean, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, islands off Caribbean Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil (Tommasi 1970[1], Hendler et al. 1995[2], Chavarro et al. 2004[3], Durán-Gonzáles et al. 2005[4], Alvarado et al. 2008[5]). In Brazil from Paraíba, Pernambuco (Rathbun 1879[6]), Alagoas (Miranda et al. 2012[7]), Bahia (Rathbun 1879[6]), Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo (Tommasi 1970[1]). Intertidal to 364 m deep. Recorded from 10 to 35 m in the present account.
Remarks
This cryptic species lives in reef environments, seagrass beds, on gravel and coral rubble. Usually found together with other ophiuroids, such as Ophioderma cinerea, Ophiocoma echinata, and Ophiocoma wendtii (Hendler et al. 1995[2]). According to Hendler et al. (1995)[2], records from the East Atlantic are based on misidentified specimens. This species presumably has a vitellaria larva (Hendler 1979b[8], Hendler and Littman 1986[9]). It is variable both in color and in morphology (Hendler et al. 1995[2]). Among the variable characters are the number of arms pines, that may vary from 7 to 10 spines; Ziesenhenne (1955) observed specimens with 9 to 10 arm spines.
Taxon Treatment
- Gondim, A; Alonso, C; Dias, T; Manso, C; Christoffersen, M; 2013: A taxonomic guide to the brittle-stars (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) from the State of Paraíba continental shelf, Northeastern Brazil ZooKeys, 307: 45-96. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tommasi L (1970) Os ofiuróides recentes do Brasil e de regiões vizinhas. Contribuições do Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo Série Oceanografia Biológica 20: 1–146. doi: 10.1590/S0373-55241971000100001
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Hendler G, Miller J, Pawson D, Kier P (1995) Sea stars, sea urchins and allies: echinoderms of Florida and the Caribbean. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 390 pp.
- ↑ Chavarro S, Zea S, Manuel D (2004) Esponjas y otros microhábitats de ofiuros (Ophiuroidea: Echinodermata) em ambientes arrecifales del Archipiélago de San Bernardo (Caribe Colombiano). Boletín de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras 33: 27-46.
- ↑ Durán-González A, Laguarda-Figueras A, Solís-Marín F, Sánchez B, Ahearn C, Torres-Vega J (2005) Echinoderms (Echinodermata) from the Mexican waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Revista de Biologia Tropical 53: 53-68.
- ↑ Alvarado J, Solís-Marin F, Ahearn C (2008) Echinoderms (Echinodermata) from Central America Caribbean. Revista de Biologia Tropical 56: 37-55.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Rathbun R (1879) A list of the Brazilian echinoderms, with notes on their distribution. Transactions Academy of Arts and Science 5: 139-158.
- ↑ Miranda A, Lima M, Sovierzoski H, Correia M (2012) Inventory of the Echinodermata collection from the Universidade Federal de Alagoas. Biota Neotropica 12: 136-146. doi: 10.1590/S1676-06032012000200014
- ↑ Hendler G (1979b) Reproductive periodicity of ophiuroids (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Panamá. In: Stancyk SE (Ed), Reproductive ecology of marine invertebrates. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, South Carolina. 145–156.
- ↑ Hendler G, Littman B (1986) The ploys of sex: relationships among the mode of reproduction, body size and habits of coral reef brittlestars. Coral Reefs 5: 31-42. doi: 10.1007/BF00302169
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