Ophiacantha diplasia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiacanthina
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Cryptosyringida Classis: Ophiuroidea Subclasse: Myophiuroidea Infraclasse: Metophiurida Superordo: Ophintegrida Ordo: Ophiacanthida Subordo: Ophiacanthina

Ophiacantha diplasia H.L. Clark, 1911

Type locality: North Pacific Ocean, USA, Oregon, Heceta Bank, 43°59′15″N 43°59′15″E / 43.9875°N 43.9875°E / 43.9875; 43.9875 , depth 108 m.

Holotype: USNM 25647 [1].

Paratypes: USNM 26247 [2]; USNM 26000 [3]; USNM 27216 [4]; USNM 27091 [5]; USNM 26814 [6]; USNM 27215 [7]; USNM 26248 [8]; USNM 26927 [9]; USNM 26987 [10]; MCZ OPH-3198 [11]; MCZ OPH-3199 [12]; MCZ OPH-3416 [13]; MCZ OPH-3417 [14]; MCZ OPH-3418 [15].

Ophiacantha diplasia H.L. Clark, 1911: 209–211, fig. 97; — H.L. Clark, 1915: 198; — Downey, 1969: 67–68; — Hendler, 1996.
Ophiophthalmus diplasia (H.L. Clark, 1911) Kyte, 1982: 508.

Clark, H.L. 1911. North Pacific Ophiurans in the collection of the United States National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 75: 1-302. BHL Reference page.
Clark, H.L. 1915a. Catalogue of recent ophiurans: based on the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 25(4): 163–376, 20 pls. BHL Reference page.
Downey, M.E. 1969. Catalog of recent Ophiuroid type specimens in major collections in the United States. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 293: 1–239. BHL Reference page.
Kyte, M.A. 1982. Ophiacantha abyssa, new species, and Ophiophthalmus displasia (Clark), a suggested new combination in the Ophiuroid family Ophiacanthidae (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from off Oregon, U.S.A. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 95(3): 505–508. BHL Reference page.
Hendler, G. 1996. Class Ophiuroidea. In: Blake, J.A., Scott, P.H., Lissner, A. (eds). Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and the Western Santa Barbara Channel. 14: 113-179 Reference page.