Brittle stars belong to the phylum Echinodermata, which contains over 7,000 living species of marine organisms. Echinoderms are unique in their five-fold radial symmetry, ability to reproduce ...

Brittle stars (Class Ophiuroidea) represent a remarkably diverse group of echinoderms with an extensive fossil record that has long provided insight into marine evolution and biogeography. Recent ...

Brooding brittle stars are echinoderms in the class Ophiuroidea and are closely related to starfish. They have a small body and long, spindly arms.

It is mostly made up of brittle stars (Ophiuroidea), which are closely related to starfish. Tens of millions of the creatures were found living crammed together.

Then we move on to their distant cousins the brittle stars (Ophiuroidea). These echinoderms have evolved in a different direction most species live under rocks.

A new ophiacanthid brittle star (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) from sublittoral crinoid and seagrass communities of late Maastrichtian age in the southeast Netherlands. PeerJ , 2020; 8: e9671 DOI ...

Non-destructive morphological observations of the fleshy brittle star, Asteronyx loveni using micro-computed tomography (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea, Euryalida). ZooKeys , 2017; 663: 1 DOI: 10.3897 ...

Giant “brittle star” (ophiuroidea). Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons. A group of researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Pisa has identified a new climatic ...

Researchers from Japan have developed a metabarcoding technology for brittle stars. Japanese scientists, led by Dr Masanori Okanishi of the Hiroshima Shudo University and the University of Tokyo ...

Within this phylum, the Ophiuroidea class contains both species of brittle star and basket star, with the O. esmarki brittle star being the focus of my research. Echinoderms have two independent ...