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Ophioderma brevispina The latin name translates to "Snake-skin short-spine". This brittle star is easily recognized by the seven or eight short spines projecting from each arm segment. Like other brittle stars, these echinoderms are capable of a relatively fast snaky motion. The color is usually green or brownish with a diameter of 10-15mm. And arm length of 40-60mm.
Gosner, K.L., A Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore, 1979, Houghton Mifflin Company Barnes, R.D., Invertebrate Zoology, 1980, Saunders College and Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
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David Remsen
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Gray Slides
Collected at Basset's ISland Pocasset, ventral side |
Gray Slides
Collected at Basset's ISland Pocasset, dorsal side |
Gray Slides
Collected at Basset's ISland Pocasset, dorsal side |
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