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Amphipholis
Genus of echinoderms From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Amphipholis is a large genus of brittle stars (Ophiuroidea) found in oceans worldwide from tropics to Arctic and Antarctic regions. Some species have been used to study echinoderm development (Amphipholis kochii[1]) and bioluminescence (the dwarf brittle star, Amphipholis squamata[2][3]).
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Systematics
Amphipholis is a large genus with potentially many cryptic species.[4] The high variability may be due to common parthenogenetic reproduction. The type species of the genus is Amphipholis januarii Ljungman, 1866(=Amphipholis gracillima (Stimpson, 1852)).
Species include:[5]
- Amphipholis abdita
- Amphipholis andreae
- Amphipholis bananensis
- Amphipholis clypeata
- Amphipholis elevata
- Amphipholis erecta
- Amphipholis geminata
- Amphipholis goesi
- Amphipholis gracillima
- Amphipholis granulata
- Amphipholis kochii
- Amphipholis laevidisca
- Amphipholis limbata
- Amphipholis linopneusti
- Amphipholis litoralis
- Amphipholis loripes
- Amphipholis microdiscus
- Amphipholis misera
- Amphipholis murmanica
- Amphipholis nudipora
- Amphipholis pentacantha
- Amphipholis platydisca
- Amphipholis procidens
- Amphipholis pugetana
- Amphipholis puntarenae
- Amphipholis sigillata
- Amphipholis similis
- Amphipholis sobrina
- Amphipholis squamata
- Amphipholis strata
- Amphipholis tetracantha
- Amphipholis torelli
- Amphipholis vitax
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References
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