Ophiopeza

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiodermatoidea

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: Ophintegrida Ordo: Ophiacanthida Subordo: Ophiodermatina Superfamilia: Ophiodermatoidea

Familia: Ophiopezidae
Genus: Ophiopeza
Species (5 + †1): O. cylindrica – O. exilis – O. fallax – †O. ferrugineum – O. kingi – O. spinosa

• Transferred to other genera (8 + †2): O. aequalis – O. anchista – O. assimilis – O. aster – †O. buehleri – O. custos – O. petersi – †O. portei – O. reducta – O. yoldii
  

• In synonymy (3): O. conjugens – O. danbyi – O. dubiosa – O. gracilis
  

Name

Ophiopeza Peters, 1851

• Type species: Ophiopeza fallax Peters, 1851, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Ophiopeza Peters, 1851: 465; — Lütken, 1856: 4, 9; — Lütken, 1859: 200; — Brock, 1888: 471; — Vail & Rowe, 1989: 268–269; — Boissin et al., 2016: 286; — O’Hara et al., 2018: 15.
• Ophiopezella Ljungman, 1872: 639; — de Loriol, 1893b: 6–7; — H.L. Clark, 1909: 119–120.
  • Type species: Ophiarachna spinosa Ljungman, 1867, by monotypy.
  • Synonymised by: A.M. Clark (1968: 313 [in text]).
• Distichophis Ely, 1942: 54–55.
  • Type species: Distichophis clarki Ely, 1942, by original designation.
• Indophioderma Sastry, Marimuthu & Rajan, 2019

References

• Boissin, E., Hoareau, T.B., Paulay, G. & Bruggemann, J.H. 2016. Shallow-water reef ophiuroids (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) of Réunion (Mascarene Islands), with biogeographic considerations. Zootaxa 4098(2): 273–297. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4098.2.4.Reference page. 
• Brock, J.G. 1888. Die Ophiuridenfauna des indischen Archipels. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie. 47: 465–539. BHL Reference page. 
• Clark, A.M. 1968. Notes on some tropical Indo-Pacific ophiotrichids and ophiodermatids (Ophiuroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), zoology. 16(7): 277-322, 1pl. BHL Reference page. 
• Clark, H.L. 1909. Notes on some Australian and Indo-Pacific Echinoderms. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 52(7): 107–135. BHL Reference page. 
• Ely, C.A. 1942. Shallow water Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea of Hawaii. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin. 176: 1–63. Hathitrust. Reference page. 
• Ljungman, A. [1871] 1872. Förteckning öfver uti Vestindien af Dr A. Goës samt under korvetten Josefinas expedition i Atlantiska Oceanen samlade Ophiurider. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 28(6): 615–658. BHL Reference page. 
• Loriol, P. de 1893b. Catalogue raisonné des échinodermes recueillis par M. V. de Robillard à l'île Maurice. III. Ophiures et Astrophytides. Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève. 32(3): 1–63. BHL. Reference page. 
• Lütken, C.F. 1856. Bidrag til kundskab om Slangestjernerne. II. Oversigt over de vestindiske Ophiurer. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn. 1854–56: 1–19. BHL [In Danish] Reference page. 
• Lütken, C.F. 1859. Additamenta ad historiam Ophiuridarum. Anden Afdelning. Det kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter. Naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk Afdelning. 5: 177-271, 5 pl. 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. 
• Parameswaran, U.V., Nowshad, B.M., Dixit, S., Manjebrayakath, H., Idreesbabu, K.K. & Saravanane, N. 2020. New records of brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the Lakshadweep atolls, northern Indian Ocean, with notes on Indophioderma ganapatii Sastry, Marimuthu & Rajan, 2019. Zootaxa 4809(3): 560–570. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4809.3.9 Reference page. 
• Peters, W.C.H. 1851. Übersicht der an der Küste von Mossambique eingesammelten Ophiuren, unter denen sich zwei neue Gattungen befinden. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1851: 463–466. BHL. Reference page. 
• Vail, L.L. & Rowe, F.W.E. 1989. Status of the genera Ophiopeza and Ophiopsammus (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) in Australian waters, with the description of a new species. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 110(3): 267–288. BHL Reference page. 

Links

• Ophiopeza Peters, 1851 in the World Ophiuroidea Database, accessed on April 23, 2026

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