Ophiomusa rosacea

Ophiomusa rosacea

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiomusina
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Cryptosyringida Classis: Ophiuroidea Subclasse: Myophiuroidea Infraclasse: Metophiurida Superordo: Euryophiurida Ordo: Ophiurida Suborder Ophiomusina

Familia: Ophiomusaidae
Genus: Ophiomusa
Species: Ophiomusa rosacea

Name

Ophiomusa rosacea (A.H. Clark, 1936)

• original combination: Ophiomusium rosaceum A.H. Clark, 1936
• Type locality: Caroline R/V station 101. Virgin Islands, west of Anegada Island. 18.675°N 64.83°W / 18.675; -64.83. Depth: 548 m.
• Holotype: USNM E5196 [1].

Synonymy

• Ophiomusium rosaceum A.H. Clark, 1936: 3–4, pl. 2 fig. 3–4; — Baker, 2016: 20, figs. 29a–b.
• Ophiomusa rosacea (A.H. Clark, 1936) O’Hara et al., 2018: 9.

References

• Baker, A.N. 2016. An illustrated catalogue of type specimens of the bathyal brittlestar genera Ophiomusium Lyman and Ophiosphalma H. L. Clark (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Zootaxa 4097(1): 1–40. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.1 Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Clark, A.H. 1936. Reports on the collections obtained by the first Johnson Smithsonian deep-sea expedition to the Puerto Rican deep. Four new brittle stars from Puerto Rico. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection. 91(24): 1–8. BHL 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.