Ophioplinthus carinata

Ophioplinthus carinata

Ophioplinthus carinata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiurina

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: Euryophiurida Ordo: Ophiurida Subordo: Ophiurina

Familia: Ophiopyrgidae
Genus: Ophioplinthus
Species: Ophioplinthus carinata

Name

Ophioplinthus carinata (Studer, 1876)

• Original combination: Ophiolepis carinata Studer, 1876

• ZooBank: 72DB0E0B-E917-4CCC-9CE3-891A23D7E59C

• Type locality: Kerguelen Islands.

• Syntypes: MCZ:IZ:OPH-790 [1]; MCZ:IZ:OPH-921 [2]; ZMB Collection Echinodermata 2068 [3]; ZMB Collection Echinodermata 2192 [4]; ZMB Collection Echinodermata 2268 [5].

Synonymy

• Ophiolepis carinata Studer, 1876: 460.
• Ophioglypha deshayesi Lyman, 1878: 96–97, pl. 2(35–37); — Downey, 1969: 120.
  • Synonymised by Matsumoto (1915: 80).
• Ophiurolepis carinata (Studer, 1876) Matsumoto, 1915: 80; — Mortensen, 1936: 317–318.
• Ophioplinthus carinata (Studer, 1876) Martynov & Litvinova, 2008: 88.

References

• Downey, M.E. 1969. Catalog of recent Ophiuroid type specimens in major collections in the United States. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 293: 1–239. BHL Reference page. 
• Lyman, T. 1878. Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae of the exploring voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, under Prof. Sir Wyville Thomson, F.R.S. Part 1. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 5(7): 65–168. BHL Reference page. 
• Martynov, A. & Litvinova, N.M. 2008. Deep-water Ophiuroidea of the northern Atlantic with descriptions of three new species and taxonomic remarks on certain genera and species. Marine Biology Research. 4: 76-111. DOI: 10.1080/17451000701840066 Reference page. 
• Matsumoto, H. 1915. A new classification of the Ophiuroidea: with description of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 68: 43–92. BHL Reference page. 
• Mortensen, T. 1936. Echinoidea and Ophiuroidea. Discovery Reports 12: 199–348, pls. 1–9. BHL Reference page. 
• Sands, C.J., O’Hara, T.D., Guzzi, A., Goodall-Copestake, W.P., Convey, P., Narayanaswamy, B.E., Martín-Ledo, R., Stöhr, S. 2025. And then there were many: insights from the tangled taxonomy of the Antarctic brittle star Ophioplinthus gelida (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Frontiers in Marine Science 12: 1615695. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2025.1615695 . Reference page. 
• Studer, T.R. 1876. Echinodermen aus dem antarktischen Meere und zwei neue Seeigel von den Papua-Inseln, gesammelt auf der Reise S.M.S. Gazelle um die Erde. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1876: 452–465. BHL (German). Reference page. 

Links

• Ophioplinthus carinata (Studer, 1876) in the World Ophiuroidea Database, accessed on July 19, 2026

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