Ophioderma brevispinum

Ophioderma brevispinum

Ophioderma brevispinum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiodermatoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Orthokaryota Cladus: Neokaryota Cladus: Scotokaryota 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: Ophiodermatoidea

Familia: Ophiodermatidae
Genus: Ophioderma
Species: Ophioderma brevispinum

Name

Ophioderma brevispinum (Say, 1825)

• Original combination: Ophiura brevispina Say, 1825

• ZooBank: 95B2AE1A-0226-4940-A237-DA0DDE14EE22

• Type locality: Coast of Florida.

Synonymy

• Ophiura brevispina Say, 1825: 149; — Lyman, 1860: 258; — Rathbun, 1879: 151; — Verrill, 1899: 4–5; — H.L. Clark, 1900: 242.
• Ophioderma olivaceum Ayres, 1852
• Ophioderma serpens Lütken, 1856
  • Synonymised by: Lyman (1860: 258).
• Ophiura olivacea (Ayres, 1852) Lyman, 1865: 23–25; — Verrill, 1866: 339.
• Ophioderma brevispinum (Say, 1825) H.L. Clark, 1915: 300; — H.L. Clark, 1941: 89.
• Ophioderma brevispina (Say, 1825)
  • Wrong ending due to confusion about gender of Ophioderma, see Corrigenda of ICZN 1980. OPINION 1152

References

• Clark, H.L. 1900. The Echinoderms of Porto Rico. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 20(2): 233–263. 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. 
• Clark, H.L. 1941. Reports on the scientific results of the Atlantis expeditions to the West Indies, under the joint auspices of the University of Havana and Harvard University. The Echinoderms (other than holothurians). Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural. 15(1): 1-154, 10 plates. Reference page. 
• ICZN 1980. OPINION 1152 (Case 1772). Ophiura Lamarck, 1801 and Ophioderma Müller & Troschel, 1840 (Ophiuroidea): ruling on application of these names. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 37(2): 78–80. BHL. [Corrigenda: 38(4): 317, 1981. BHL.] 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. 
• Lyman, T. 1865. Illustrated catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College, No. 1: Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae. viii+200 pp.; pl. I–II; fig. 1–19. BHL Reference page. 
• Rathbun, R. 1879. A List of the Brazilian Echinoderms, with Notes on their Distribution, etc. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 5: 139–158. BHL Reference page. 
• Say, T. 1825. On the species of the Linnaean genus Asterias, inhabiting the coast of the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 5: 141–154. BHL Reference page. 
• Verrill, A.E. 1866. On the Polyps and Echinoderms of New England, with Descriptions of New Species. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 10: 333–357. BHL Reference page. 
• Verrill, A.E. 1899b. Report on the Ophiuroidea collected by the Bahama Expedition from the University of Iowa in 1893. Bulletin from the laboratories of natural history of the State University of Iowa. 5(1): 1-86; plates I-VIII. BHL. Reference page. 

Links

• Ophioderma brevispinum (Say, 1825) in the World Ophiuroidea Database, accessed on June 02, 2026

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