Jean-Marie Gradot, La Reunion
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Breviturma dentata (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Depth information reported for China. Members of the class Ophiuroidea are mostly gonochoric, others are protandric. Fertilization is external. Brooding is common, bursae is used as brood chambers where the embryos develop into juveniles and later crawl out from the bursal slits. Life cycle: Embryos hatch into free-swimming planktotrophic larvae and later metamorphose into tiny brittle stars which sink down the bottom where they grow into adult form.
Synonymised names:
Ophiocoma (Breviturma) dentata Müller & Troschel, 1842 (raised to genus level)
Ophiocoma brevipes dentata (H.L. Clark, 1921)
Ophiocoma brevipes doederleini (H.L. Clark, 1921)
Ophiocoma brevipes var. insularia Lyman, 1862
Ophiocoma brevipes var. variegata Smith, 1876
Ophiocoma dentata Müller & Troschel, 1842 (transferred to new subgenus, later raised to genus)
Ophiocoma insularia Lyman, 1861
Ophiocoma ternispina von Martens, 1870
Ophiocoma variegata E. A. Smith, 1876
Depth information reported for China. Members of the class Ophiuroidea are mostly gonochoric, others are protandric. Fertilization is external. Brooding is common, bursae is used as brood chambers where the embryos develop into juveniles and later crawl out from the bursal slits. Life cycle: Embryos hatch into free-swimming planktotrophic larvae and later metamorphose into tiny brittle stars which sink down the bottom where they grow into adult form.
Synonymised names:
Ophiocoma (Breviturma) dentata Müller & Troschel, 1842 (raised to genus level)
Ophiocoma brevipes dentata (H.L. Clark, 1921)
Ophiocoma brevipes doederleini (H.L. Clark, 1921)
Ophiocoma brevipes var. insularia Lyman, 1862
Ophiocoma brevipes var. variegata Smith, 1876
Ophiocoma dentata Müller & Troschel, 1842 (transferred to new subgenus, later raised to genus)
Ophiocoma insularia Lyman, 1861
Ophiocoma ternispina von Martens, 1870
Ophiocoma variegata E. A. Smith, 1876
