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SUBMITTER: Gondim AI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3689063 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gondim Anne I AI Alonso Carmen C Dias Thelma L P TL Manso Cynthia L C CL Christoffersen Martin L ML
ZooKeys 20130610 307
We provide the first annotated checklist of ophiuroids from the continental shelf of the State of Paraíba, northeastern Brazil. Identification keys and taxonomic diagnoses for 23 species, belonging to 14 genera and 8 families, are provided. The material is deposited in the Invertebrate Collection Paulo Young, at the Federal University of Paraíba. Ophiopsila hartmeyeri represents the first record for the northeastern region of Brazil, while Ophiolepis impressa, Ophiolepis paucispina, Amphiura sti ...[more]