Ophionephthys
Appearance
Taxonavigation
[edit]| Taxonavigation: Amphiuroidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Amphiuridae
Genus: Ophionephthys
Species: O. difficilis – O. limicola – O. lowelli
- Species transferred to other genera: O. aestuarii – O. africana – O. ecnomiotata – O. heptacantha – O. magellanica – O. octacantha – O. phalerata – O. stewartensis – O. tenuis – O. vadicola
- In synonymy: O. decacantha – O. iranica
Name
[edit]Ophionephthys Lütken, 1869
- Type species: Ophionephthys limicola Lütken, 1869, by monotypy.
Synonymy
[edit]- Ophionephthys Lütken, 1869: 25–27(7–9), 93(75); — H.L. Clark, 1918: 278; — Thomas, 1962: 680–681; — A.M. Clark, 1970: 19–21; — O’Hara et al., 2018: 20.
References
[edit]- Clark, A.M. 1970. Notes on the family Amphiuridae (Ophiuroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), zoology 19(1): 1–81. BHL Reference page.
- Clark, H.L. 1918. Brittle-Stars, New and Old. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 62(6): 263–338, 8 pl. BHL Reference page.
- Lütken, C.F. 1869. Additamenta ad historiam Ophiuridarum. Beskrivende og kritiske bidrag til kundskab om slangestjernerne. Tredie Afdelning. Det kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter. Naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk Afdelning. 8: 20-109. 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. - Thomas, L.P. 1962. The Shallow Water Amphiurid Brittle Stars (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) of Florida. Bulletin of Marine Science 12(4): 623–694. Online. Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Ophionephthys Lütken, 1869 in the World Ophiuroidea Database, accessed on October 04, 2025