Common Brittlestar

Description: English: Sea fan with unusual burden of hairy brittle stars. Sinuous sea fan at north Castor Rock reef supporting an unusually large number of hairy brittle stars, Simon's Town. Date: May 2011. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.

Description: English: Orange sponge and brittlestars at Pinnacle, south of Gordon's Bay on the east side of False Bay. Date: 2 November 2008, 12:00:15. Source: Own work. Author: Pbsouthwood.

Description: English: The common brittle star, Ophiothrix fragilis, Strangford Lough, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, -22 m, 5 September 2007. Date: 24 November 2013, 11:09:59. Source: Own work. Author: Bernard Picton.

Description: English: Ophiothrix fragilis, common brittlestar, belonging to the family Ophiotrichidae. Date: 29 May 2010. Source: Own work - photo made at an sea aquarium. Author: Georges Jansoone (JoJan).

Description: Français : les ophiures se déplacent très vite et il est inutile d'essayer de les "coincer" sans provoquer des dégâts sur l'animal. Date: 5 August 2010. Source: Own work. Author: Parent Géry.

Description: English: Sea urchins and brittle stars at the Sea Point Ridge pinnacle, Cape Peninsula. Date: November 2011. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.

Description: English: Exhibit in the Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction. Date: 16 August 2012, 03:25:02. Source: Own work. Author: Daderot. Permission(Reusing this file): : This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.enCC0Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedicationfalsefalse.

Description: English: Figure 5. Diversity of ophiuroid skeletal elements: jaws, dental and genital plates. Comparison of juvenile and adult morphology. A–E. oral plates (half-jaws), abradial face; A. Ophiura sarsii (Ophiuridae), strongly elongated; B. Ophiothrix fragilis (Ophiotrichidae), short jaw with branch-like ornamentation; C. Ophiocoma erinaceus (Ophiocomidae), short jaw with striations; D. Ophiacantha bidentata (Ophiacanthidae), weakly elongated; E, Ophioderma longicauda (Ophiodermatidae), strongly elongated. F–J. dental plates, external (proximal) face; F, O. sarsii, multiple openings per tooth; G. O. fragilis, different areas for tooth papillae and teeth; H. O. erinaceus, different areas for tooth papillae and teeth; I. O. bidentata; J, O. longicauda, dental plate consists of several pieces; K–U. genital plates. K–L. O. sarsii; K, genital plates articulating with radial shields; M–N. O. fragilis; O–P. O. erinaceus; Q–R. O. bidentata; S, O. longicauda; T–U. Amphiura chiajei (Amphiuridae). ad, adradial; ab, abradial; am, articulation to arm; m, muscle attachment area; RS, radial shield.; to, tooth socket; tp, tooth papillae area; Scale bars in millimetres. Date: 2012. Source: Global Diversity of Brittle Stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Author: Stöhr S, O'Hara TD, Thuy B (2012) Global Diversity of Brittle Stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). PLoS ONE 7(3): e31940. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0031940. Permission(Reusing this file): At the publication date (March 2, 2012) the Creative Commons Attribution License version was Cc-by-3.0.

Summary derivative work: Salix Description: Haeckel Amphoridea-8. See here for index to numbers. Date: 1904. Source: Kunstformen der Natur (1904), plate 95: Amphoridea (see here, here, here and here). Author: Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) . . Description: German naturalist, philosopher and artist. Date of birth/death: 16 February 1834: 9 August 1919. Location of birth/death: Potsdam: Jena. Authority control: : Q48246 VIAF: 73923565 ISNI: 0000 0001 2281 8485 LCCN: n50032763 NLA: 35850550 MGP: 159000 WorldCat. Permission (Reusing this file): public domain due to age. Other versions: File:Haeckel Amphoridea.jpg.

Description: English: Hairy brittlestars at Rambler Rock south reef. Date: 7 September 2013, 09:53:06. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.

Description: English: Sea cucumbers and brittlestars at North Friskies Pinnacle. Date: 19 May 2013, 11:51:44. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.

Description: English: Noble coral and false coral with brittle stars at Barry's Pinnacle, Cape Peninsula. Date: November 2011. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.

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Description: Italiano: it:Ophiothrix fragilis. Date: 15 April 2004. Source: MondoMarino.net. Author: Massimiliano DE MARTINO. Permission(Reusing this file): : This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. The Wikimedia Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an Volunteer Response Team (VRT) member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2007101410010556. If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the OTRS noticeboard. Ticket link: https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketNumber=2007101410010556.

Description: English: Hairy Brittlestars at North Friskies Pinnacle. Date: 19 May 2013, 11:55:46. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.

Description: English: Various echinoderms at East Shoal, False Bay, South Africa. Date: 15 August 2010. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.

Description: English: Urchins and brittle stars on a vertical rock face, Cape Peninsula. Date: February 2012. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.

Description: English: Hairy brittlestars at Three Bears Pinnacle. Date: 9 September 2018, 09:02:16. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.