Ophiosteira

Ophiosteira antarctica

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiurina
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 Subordo: Ophiurina

Familia: Ophiopyrgidae
Genus: Ophiosteira
Species (6): O. antarctica – O. bullivanti – O. debitor – O. echinulata – O. koehleri – O. lissopatella – O. rotundata

Name

• Ophiosteira Bell, 1902
  • Type species: Ophiosteira antarctica Bell, 1902, by monotypy

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.  [as Ophiosteira p. 217–218 (original description)]
• Fell, H.B. 1961. The fauna of the Ross Sea. Part 1. Ophiuroidea. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir. 18: 1-79, 19 pls. Internet Archive Reference page.  [as Ophiosteira p. 65]
• 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.  [as Ophiosteira p. 10]