Description The most dominant family in the tropics. Jaws triangular with numerous lateral papillae along the edge of the oral plates,...
Description The most dominant family in the tropics. Jaws triangular with numerous lateral papillae along the edge of the oral plates, and with a cluster of papillae at the apex of each jaw. Richmond 1997 <282>. [details]
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T. & Thuy, B. (Eds) (2018). World Ophiuroidea database. Ophiocomidae Ljungman, 1867. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152490 on 2019-02-21
basis of recordIntegrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online athttp://www.itis.gov[details]
additional sourceHayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Description The most dominant family in the tropics. Jaws triangular with numerous lateral papillae along the edge of the oral plates, and with a cluster of papillae at the apex of each jaw. Richmond 1997 <282>. [details] Remark In order Chylophiurida in Devaney 1970. [details]