Ophidiaster helicostichus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Granulosina
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Asterozoa Classis: Asteroidea Ordo: Valvatida Subordo: Granulosina

Familia: Ophidiasteridae
Genus: Ophidiaster
Species: Ophidiaster helicostichus

Name

Ophidiaster helicostichus Sladen, 1889

Type locality: Challenger station 187. Torres Strait, Booby Island. 10.600000°S 141.916667°E / -10.600000; 141.916667. Depth 6 fms.

Holotype: BMNH 1890.5.7.618 [1].

Synonymy

• Ophidiaster helicostichus Sladen, 1889: 405–407, pl. 69 figs. 5–7; — Bell, 1894: 405.
• Hacelia helicosticha (Sladen, 1889) H.L. Clark, 1909: 111; 1921: 86; 1938: 139.
• Ophidiaster astridae Engel, 1938: 12–14, pl. 3 figs. 3a–b, textfigs. 2–4.
  • Type locality: "île Enoë", Dutch East Indies.

References

• Bell, F.J. 1894. On the echinoderms collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Penguin and by H.M.S. Egeria, when surveying Macclesfield Bank. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1894: 392–413. BHL Reference page. 
• Clark, H.L. 1909. Notes on some Australian and Indo-Pacific Echinoderms. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 52(7): 107–135. BHL Reference page. 
• Clark, H.L. 1921. The echinoderm fauna of Torres Strait: its composition and its origin. Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institute. 10: 1–223. BHL Reference page. 
• Clark, H.L. 1938. Echinoderms from Australia, an account of collections made in 1929 and 1932. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 55: 1–597, 28 pls. BHL Reference page. 
• Engel, H. 1938. Astéries et Ophiures. In : Résultats Scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Néerlandaises de LL.AA.RR. le Prince et la Princesse Léopold de Belgique. 3(18): 1–31, pls. I–IV. Mémoires du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique (Hors Série).Reference page. 
• Sladen, W.P. 1889. Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 Part 51, Zoology 30: i-xlii, 1-893 BHL Reference page.