Ophiocymbium

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophioscolecida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa 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: Ophioscolecida

Familia: Ophioscolecidae
Genus: Ophiocymbium
Species: O. antarcticus – O. cavernosum – O. ninae – O. rarispinum – O. tanyae

Name

Ophiocymbium Lyman, 1880

Type species: Ophiocymbium cavernosum Lyman, 1880, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Ophiocymbium Lyman, 1880: 7; — Lyman, 1882: 162–163; — Martynov, 2010: 52–55, 64; — O’Hara et al., 2018: 11.

References

• Lyman, T. 1880. A structural feature, hitherto unknown among Echinodermata, found in deep-sea ophiurans. Anniversary memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 1-12. BHL Reference page. 
• Lyman, T. 1882. Report on the Ophiuroidea dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Reports of Science Research Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger. Zoology 5(14): 1–386. BHL Reference page. 
• Martynov, A. 2010. Reassessment of the classification of the Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata), based on morphological characters. I. General character evaluation and delineation of the families Ophiomyxidae and Ophiacanthidae. Zootaxa. 2697: 1–154. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2697.1.1 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. 

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