Glaciacantha

Glaciacantha dubium

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiurina

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Orthokaryota Cladus: Neokaryota Cladus: Scotokaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Cryptosyringida Classis: Ophiuroidea Subclasse: Myophiuroidea Infraclasse: Metophiurida Superordo: Euryophiurida Ordo: Ophiurida Subordo: Ophiurina

Familia: Ophiopyrgidae
Genus: Glaciacantha
Species (5): G. banzarei – G. cryptum – G. doederleini – G. dubium – G. nizari

• In synonymy (1): G. jason
  

Name

Glaciacantha Fell, 1961

• Type species: Glaciacantha jason Fell, 1961, by original designation.

Synonymy

• Glaciacantha Fell, 1961a: 839; — Fell, 1961b: 36; — O’Hara et al., 2018: 10.

References

• Fell, H.B. 1961a. New genera and species of Ophiuroidea from Antarctica. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 88(4): 839–841. Online Reference page. 
• Fell, H.B. 1961b. The fauna of the Ross Sea. Part 1. Ophiuroidea. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir. 18: 1-79, 19 pls. Internet Archive Reference page. 
• 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. 

Links

• Glaciacantha Fell, 1961 in the World Ophiuroidea Database, accessed on January 04, 2026

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