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Brittle stars looking like starfish: the first fossil record of the Astrophiuridae and a remarkable case of convergent evolution

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By Clark HL, Gray JE, Jagt JWM, Troschel FH
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Introduction Occasionally, scientists are struck by discoveries to such extent that they express their enthusiasm explicitly, for example by choosing a name for a new species that translates as ‘very wonderful’. This was most likely the case when British biologist Sladen (1878, 1879) introduced the species name permira for an odd brittle star with a bizarre, limpet-like body shape unseen in any other ophiuroid.
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