Amphipholis
Amphipholis is a large genus of brittle stars found in oceans worldwide from tropics to Arctic and Antarctic regions. Some species have been used to study echinoderm development and bioluminescence.
Systematics
Amphipholis is a large genus with potentially many cryptic species. The high variability may be due to common parthenogenetic reproduction. The type species of the genus is Amphipholis januarii Ljungman, 1866.Species include:
- 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''