Behavior and Functional Morphology of Respiration in the Basket Star, Gorgonocephalus eucnemis and Two Brittle Stars in the Genus Ophiothrix

Gorgonocephalus eucnemis, Ophiothrix suensonii and Ophiothrix spiculata are aerobic Echinoderms. Previous observations on the anatomy of these two genera state five pairs of radial shields and genital plates are responsible for regulating the position of the roof of the body disc and the flushing of...

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Main Author: Hainey, MacKenna
Other Authors: Emlet, Richard
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/24233