Ophiotholia montana

Ophiotholia montana

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophioscolecida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa 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: Ophioscolecida

Familia: Ophiohelidae
Genus: Ophiotholia
Species: Ophiotholia montana

Name

Ophiotholia montana Litvinova, 1981

Type locality: Pacific Ocean, Dmitri Mendeleyev Seamount, 4.816667°N 154.966667°E / 4.816667; 154.966667. Depth 1230–1370 m

Holotype: ZMMU D-1011.

Paratype: ZMMU D-1012.

Synonymy

• Ophiotholia montana Litvinova, 1981: 127, fig. 4_{3, 5, 6}; — Litvinova, 1992: 53–54, fig. 2_Ж; — Eichsteller et al., 2023: 5, fig. 5.

References

• Eichsteller, A., Martynov, A.V., O’Hara, T.D., Christodoulou, M., Korshunova, T.A., Bribiesca-Contreras, G., Martinez Arbizu, P. 2023a. Ophiotholia (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea): A little-known deep-sea genus present in polymetallic nodule fields with the description of a new species. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10: 1056282. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1056282 . Reference page. 
• Litvinova, N.M. 1981. Ophiuroidea. In: Kuznetsov, A.P.; Mironov, A.N.. Benthos of the submarine mountains Marcus -Necker and adjacent Pacific regions, Academy of Sciences of the USSR P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow. 113-130. Reference page. 
• Litvinova, N.M. 1992. Revision of the genus Ophiotholia (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea). Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal. 71(3): 47–57. Reference page. 

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