Ophiomusa lymani

Ophiomusa lymani

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiomusina
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Cryptosyringida Classis: Ophiuroidea Subclasse: Myophiuroidea Infraclasse: Metophiurida Superordo: Euryophiurida Ordo: Ophiurida Suborder Ophiomusina

Familia: Ophiomusaidae
Genus: Ophiomusa
Species: Ophiomusa lymani

Name

Ophiomusa lymani (Wyville Thomson, 1873) Hertz, 1927

Synonyms

• Ophiomisidium lymani (Wyville Thomson, 1873) A.M. Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976
• Ophiomusium lymani Wyville Thomson, 1873 (original combination)

Etymology: named after Theodore Lyman

Lectotype: BMNH 90.2.19.9.10 [see Baker, 2016]

Type locality: Porcupine Expedition off the west coast of Ireland.

References

• Baker, A.N. 2016. An illustrated catalogue of type specimens of the bathyal brittlestar genera Ophiomusium Lyman and Ophiosphalma H. L. Clark (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Zootaxa 4097(1): 1–40. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.1 Full article (PDF) Reference page.  [see page 16 as Ophiomusium lymani, lectotype designation]
• Hertz, M.C. 1927b. Die Ophiuroiden der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. I. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer Valdivia, 1898-1899. 22(3):59-122. Reference page.  [recombination reference]
• Thomson, C.W. 1873. The Depths of the Sea. Macmillan and Co.: London: 527 pp. BHL. Reference page.  [see page 174 as Ophiomusium lymani, original description)]

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• Clark, A.M. & Courtman-Stock, J. 1976. The echinoderms of Southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Natural History): 1–277 Reference page. 
• Clark, H.L. 1939. Ophiuroidea. The John Murray Expedition 1933-34. Scientific reports. London: The Trustees of the British Museum. 6: 29-136. BHL.Reference page. 
• Nethupul, H., Stöhr, S. & Zhang, H-B. 2022. New species, redescriptions and new records of deep-sea brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the South China Sea, an integrated morphological and molecular approach. European Journal of Taxonomy. 810(1): 1–95. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.810.1723 Reference page.  [as Ophiomusa lymani p. 28]
• O’Hara, T.D., Stöhr, S., Hugall, A.F., Thuy, B. & Martynov, A. 2018. Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification. European Journal of Taxonomy 416: 1–35. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.416 Reference page.  [see pages 8-9]