Ophiocomella alexandri

Ophiocomella alexandri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiocomoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota 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: Ophintegrida Ordo: Ophiacanthida Subordo: Ophiodermatina Superfamilia: Ophiocomoidea

Familia: Ophiocomidae
Genus: Ophiocomella
Species: Ophiocomella alexandri

Name

Ophiocomella alexandri (Lyman, 1860)

• Original combination: Ophiocoma alexandri Lyman, 1860

• Type locality: Pacific Ocean. Mexico, Acapulco. 16.6525820°N 100.07140°W / 16.6525820; -100.07140.

• Holotype: MCZ OPH-1825 [1].

• Paratypes: MCZ OPH-1663 [2]; MCZ OPH-4106 [3].

Synonymy

• Ophiocoma alexandri Lyman, 1860: 256–257; — H.L. Clark, 1913: 217; — H.L. Clark, 1923b: 157; 1921: 131; Granja-Fernández et al., 2014: 129–132, fig. 5G–L.
• Ophiocomella alexandri (Lyman, 1860) O’Hara et al., 2018.

References

• Clark, H.L. 1913. Echinoderms from lower California with descriptions of new species. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 32: 185-236. BHL Reference page. 
• Clark, H.L. 1921. The echinoderm fauna of Torres Strait: its composition and its origin. Papers from the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 10 (Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 214): 1–223. BHL Reference page. 
• Clark, H.L. 1923b. Echinoderms from Lower California, with descriptions of new species : supplementary report. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 48(6): 147–163. BHL. Reference page. 
• Granja–Fernández, R., Herrero-Pérezrul, M.D., López-Pérez, R.A., Hernández, L., Rodríguez-Zaragoza, F.A., Jones, R.W., Pineda-López, R. 2014. Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from coral reefs in the Mexican Pacific. ZooKeys, 406: 101-145. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.406.6306 Reference page. 
• Lyman, T. 1860. Descriptions of new Ophiuridae, belonging to the Smithsonian Institution and to the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 7: 193–204 BHL; 252–262 BHL. Reference page. 
• O’Hara, T.D., Hugall, A.F., Cisternas, P.A., Boissin, E., Bribiesca-Contreras, G., Sellanes, J., Paulay, G. & Byrne, M. 2018. Phylogenomics, life history and morphological evolution of ophiocomid brittlestars. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 130: 67–80. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.003 Reference page.