Ophiacantha pacifica

Ophiacantha pacifica

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiacanthina
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: Ophintegrida Ordo: Ophiacanthida Subordo: Ophiacanthina

Familia: Ophiacanthidae
Genus: Ophiacantha
Species: Ophiacantha pacifica

Name

Ophiacantha pacifica Lütken & Mortensen, 1899

Syntypes: MCZ OPH-1972 [1]; MCZ OPH-2199 [2]; MNHN-IE-2013-10257 [3]; USNM 19559 [4].

Synonymy

• Ophiacantha pacifica Lütken & Mortensen, 1899: 166–167, pl. 15 figs. 4–6, pl. 16 fig. 11; — H.L. Clark, 1915: 203; — Stöhr, & O’Hara, 2021: 522–523, figs. 4A–D.

References

• Clark, H.L. 1915. 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. 
• Lütken, C.F., & Mortensen, T. 1899. Reports on an exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, Central and Southern America and off the Galapagos Islands, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. fish comission steamer "Albatross", duing 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. XXV. The Ophiuridae. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 23(2): 97-208. BHL Reference page. 
• Stöhr, S., & O’Hara, T.D. 2021. Deep-sea Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from the Danish Galathea II Expedition, 1950–52, with taxonomic revisions. Zootaxa 4963(3): 505–529. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4963.3.6 Reference page.