Flat-spined Brittle Star

Ophiopteris papillosa

Classification

Class: Ophiuroidea
Order: Ophiacanthida
Family: Ophiopteridae

Ophiopteris is a genus of brittle stars. The genus was first described in 1877 from a specimen collected in New Zealand.

Distribution

Flat-spined Brittle Star — (c) Rebecca Johnson, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 607Canada · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Rebecca Johnson, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionOphiopteris, Wikipedia contributors

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