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Unknown Brittle star

Ophiuroids sp.

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Swe: "Ormsjöstjärna"

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8 Comments

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 11 years ago

Agree whit Scott is a Brittle star!

Linnea Joandi
Linnea Joandi 11 years ago

ThANKS, i´M GONNA TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IT IS.

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 11 years ago

It's a brittle star, a member of the "class" Ophiuroidea and most likely a member of the "order" Ophiurida. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittle_sta... Sweden has a Swedish Taxonomic Database "Dyntaxa" and surely this brittle star is found in there. If one were up for it, they could begin searching here http://www.dyntaxa.se/Taxon/Info/4000087... This would only provide names but these could then be used to search google images. As one might imagine there are quite a number of species of brittle stars in Sweden's waters... I skimmed but didn't find it to my satisfaction. It looks smaller than adult size maybe. I do not know if that would affect color. I also do not know if the specimen is alive in the spotting.

Very interesting, hope you get an ID, I would love to know what it is?!

MrsPbio
MrsPbio 11 years ago

Yes, some sort of brittle star.

Telse
Telse 11 years ago

I think Frazier is correct. Here are some images of them.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=imag...

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 11 years ago

Looks like a brittle star missing a leg...

Telse
Telse 11 years ago

Wow, this is interesting. I wonder what it is ?

Linnea Joandi
Spotted by
Linnea Joandi

Västra Götalands län, Sweden

Spotted on Jun 17, 2012
Submitted on Feb 21, 2013

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