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Brisaster Latifrons
''Brisaster latifrons'' is a species of sea urchins of the family Schizasteridae. Their armour is covered with spines. ''Brisaster latifrons'' was first scientifically described in 1898 by Alexander Emanuel Agassiz.Kroh, A. (2010). ''Brisaster latifrons'' (Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, 1898). In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2010World Echinoidea Database at the World Register of Marine Species. They serve as hosts for the commensal epibiont ''Waldo arthuri ''Waldo'' is a genus of small marine clams in the family Galeommatidae. It includes five species which are all obligate commensals of sea urchins. They are found in the southern Atlantic and Antarctic Oceans, with the exception of '' Waldo art ...'', a galeommatid clam. References latifrons {{Echinoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Emanuel Agassiz
Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz (December 17, 1835March 27, 1910), son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer. Biography Agassiz was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and immigrated to the United States with his parents, Louis and Cecile (Braun) Agassiz, in 1846. He graduated from Harvard University in 1855, subsequently studying engineering and chemistry, and taking the degree of Bachelor of Science at the Lawrence Scientific School of the same institution in 1857; in 1859 became an assistant in the United States Coast Survey. Thenceforward he became a specialist in marine ichthyology. Agassiz was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1862. Up until the summer of 1866, Agassiz worked as assistant curator in the museum of natural history that his father founded at Harvard. E. J. Hulbert, a friend of Agassiz's brother-in-law, Quincy Adams Shaw, had discovered a rich copper lode known as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Urchin
Sea urchins () are spiny, globular echinoderms in the class Echinoidea. About 950 species of sea urchin live on the seabed of every ocean and inhabit every depth zone from the intertidal seashore down to . The spherical, hard shells (tests) of sea urchins are round and spiny, ranging in diameter from . Sea urchins move slowly, crawling with tube feet, and also propel themselves with their spines. Although algae are the primary diet, sea urchins also eat slow-moving (sessile) animals. Predators that eat sea urchins include a wide variety of fish, starfish, crabs, marine mammals. Sea urchins are also used as food especially in Japan. Adult sea urchins have fivefold symmetry, but their pluteus larvae feature bilateral (mirror) symmetry, indicating that the sea urchin belongs to the Bilateria group of animal phyla, which also comprises the chordates and the arthropods, the annelids and the molluscs, and are found in every ocean and in every climate, from the tropics to the pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (biology)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schizasteridae
Schizasteridae is a family of echinoderms belonging to the order Spatangoida. Genera: * ''Abatus'' Troschel, 1851 * '' Aceste'' Thomson, 1877 * ''Agassizia'' Agassiz & Desor, 1847 * '' Aguayoaster'' Sanchez Roig, 1952 * '' Aliaster'' Valdinucci, 1975 * '' Amphipneustes'' Koehler, 1900 * '' Brachybrissus'' Pomel, 1883 * '' Brachysternaster'' Larrain, 1985 * '' Brisaster'' Gray, 1855 * '' Calzadaster'' * '' Caribbaster'' Kier, 1984 * '' Cestobrissus'' Lambert, 1912 * '' Diploporaster'' Mortensen, 1950 * '' Dipneustes'' Arnaud, 1891 * '' Gregoryaster'' Lambert, 1907 * '' Hemifaorina'' Jeannet & Martin, 1937 * '' Hypselaster'' H.L.Clark, 1917 * '' Kina Henderson'' , 1975 * '' Lambertona'' Sanchez-Roig, 1953 * '' Linthia'' Desor, 1853 * '' Lutetiaster'' * '' Moira'' A.Agassiz, 1872 * '' Moiropsis'' A.Agassiz, 1881 * '' Neoproraster'' * '' Opissaster'' Pomel, 1883 * ''Ova , abbreviated as OVA and sometimes as OAV (original animation video), are Japanese animated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Register Of Marine Species
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms. Content The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scientific specialists on each group of organism. These taxonomists control the quality of the information, which is gathered from the primary scientific literature as well as from some external regional and taxon-specific databases. WoRMS maintains valid names of all marine organisms, but also provides information on synonyms and invalid names. It is an ongoing task to maintain the registry, since new species are constantly being discovered and described by scientists; in addition, the nomenclature and taxonomy of existing species is often corrected or changed as new research is constantly being published. Subsets of WoRMS content are made available, and can have separate badging and their own home/launch pages, as "subregisters", such as the ''World List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Host (biology)
In biology and medicine, a host is a larger organism that harbours a smaller organism; whether a parasite, parasitic, a mutualism (biology), mutualistic, or a commensalism, commensalist ''guest'' (symbiont). The guest is typically provided with nourishment and shelter. Examples include animals playing host to parasitic worms (e.g. nematodes), cell (biology), cells harbouring pathogenic (disease-causing) viruses, a Fabaceae, bean plant hosting mutualistic (helpful) Rhizobia, nitrogen-fixing bacteria. More specifically in botany, a host plant supplies nutrient, food resources to micropredators, which have an evolutionarily stable strategy, evolutionarily stable relationship with their hosts similar to ectoparasitism. The host range is the collection of hosts that an organism can use as a partner. Symbiosis Symbiosis spans a wide variety of possible relationships between organisms, differing in their permanence and their effects on the two parties. If one of the partners in an ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commensalism
Commensalism is a long-term biological interaction (symbiosis) in which members of one species gain benefits while those of the other species neither benefit nor are harmed. This is in contrast with mutualism, in which both organisms benefit from each other; amensalism, where one is harmed while the other is unaffected; parasitism, where one is harmed and the other benefits, and parasitoidism, which is similar to parasitism but the parasitoid has a free-living state and instead of just harming its host, it eventually ends up killing it. The commensal (the species that benefits from the association) may obtain nutrients, shelter, support, or locomotion from the host species, which is substantially unaffected. The commensal relation is often between a larger host and a smaller commensal; the host organism is unmodified, whereas the commensal species may show great structural adaptation consistent with its habits, as in the remoras that ride attached to sharks and other fishes. Remo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epibiont
An epibiont (from the Ancient Greek meaning "living on top of") is an organism that lives on the surface of another living organism, called the basibiont ("living underneath"). The interaction between the two organisms is called epibiosis. An epibiont is, by definition, harmless to its host. In this sense, the interaction between the two organisms can be considered neutralistic or commensalistic; as opposed to being, for example, parasitic, in which case one organism benefits at the expense of the other, or mutualistic, in which both organisms obtain some explicit benefit from their coexistence. Examples of common epibionts are barnacles, remoras, and algae, many of which live on the surfaces of larger marine organisms such as whales, sharks, sea turtles, and mangrove trees. Although there is no direct effect of the epibiont to the host, there are often indirect effects resulting from this interaction and change in the surface of the host. This has been found to be especially i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waldo Arthuri
''Waldo'' is a genus of small marine clams in the family Galeommatidae. It includes five species which are all obligate commensals of sea urchins. They are found in the southern Atlantic and Antarctic Oceans, with the exception of '' Waldo arthuri'' which is found in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy The genus ''Waldo'' belongs to the family Galeommatidae in the order Veneroida. It was named in honor of Waldo L. Schmitt, a prominent American carcinologist. The genus was first established by the American malacologist David Nicol in 1966 based on the type species '' Lepton parasiticus'' recovered from Antarctica and first described in 1876 by the American malacologist William Healey Dall. The genus was revived and revised in 2002 by the Argentinean malacologists Diego G. Zelaya and Cristián F. Ituarte. Description Members of the genus ''Waldo'' have small shells (less than in length) that are ovate to trapezoidal in shape. The shells are extremely thin and fragile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galeommatidae
Galeommatidae is a family of small and very small saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the order Galeommatida. Genera and species Genera and species within the family Galeommatidae include: * '' Achasmea'' Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938 ** Achasmea thaanumi Pilsbry, 1921 ** Achasmea rugata Kuroda & Habe, 1971 * '' Aclistothyra'' McGinty, 1955 ** '' Aclistothyra atlantica'' McGinty, 1955 *'' Aenictomya'' Oliver & Chesney, 1997 **'' Aenictomya mirabilis'' Lynge, 1909 **'' Aenictomya quadrangularis'' Lynge, 1909 * '' Ambuscintilla'' Iredale, 1936 ** '' Ambuscintilla daviei'' B. Morton, 2008 ** '' Ambuscintilla praemium'' Iredale, 1936 * '' Austrodevonia'' Middelfart & Craig, 2004 ** '' Austrodevonia percompressa'' Dall, 1899 ** '' Austrodevonia sharnae'' Middelfart & Craig, 2004 * '' Axinodon'' Verrill & Bush, 1898 ** '' Axinodon bornianus'' Dall, 1908 ** Axinodon ellipticus Verrill & Bush, 1898 ** '' Axinodon luzonicus'' E. A. Smith, 1885 ** '' Axinodon moseleyi'' E. A. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clam
Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve molluscs. The word is often applied only to those that are edible and live as infauna, spending most of their lives halfway buried in the sand of the seafloor or riverbeds. Clams have two shells of equal size connected by two adductor muscles and have a powerful burrowing foot. They live in both freshwater and marine environments; in salt water they prefer to burrow down into the mud and the turbidity of the water required varies with species and location; the greatest diversity of these is in North America. Clams in the culinary sense do not live attached to a substrate (whereas oysters and mussels do) and do not live near the bottom (whereas scallops do). In culinary usage, clams are commonly eaten marine bivalves, as in clam digging and the resulting soup, clam chowder. Many edible clams such as palourde clams are ovoid or triangular; however, razor clams have an elongated parallel-sided shell, suggesting an old-fashioned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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