Ophioplinthus inermis

Ophioplinthus inermis

Ophioplinthus inermis

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 inermis

Name

Ophioplinthus inermis (Bell, 1902)

• Original combination: Ophiozona inermis Bell, 1902

• Type locality: Antarctica, Cape Adare.

• Note: Ophiozona inermis was considered as a synonym of Ophioplinthus martensi; Reinstated within Ophioplinthus by Sands et al. (2025: 18).

Synonymy

• Ophiozona inermis Bell, 1902: 217.
• Ophioplinthus inermis (Bell, 1902) Sands et al., 2025: 18.

References

• Bell, F.J. 1902. Reports on the collections of Natural History made in the Antarctic regions during the voyage of the “Southern Cross”. VIII. Echinoderma. 214–220. 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.