Ophiocanops

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiacanthina

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Cryptosyringida Classis: Ophiuroidea Subclasse: Myophiuroidea Infraclasse: Metophiurida Superordo: Ophintegrida Ordo: Ophiacanthida Subordo: Ophiacanthina

Familia: Ophiacanthidae
Genus: Ophiocanops
Species (3): O. felli – O. fugiens – O. multispina

Name

Ophiocanops Koehler, 1922

• ZooBank: 19D73846-87B4-462D-A004-747DCBA68568

• Type species: Ophiocanops fugiens Koehler, 1922, by original designation.

Synonymy

• Ophiocanops Koehler, 1922: 24–26; — Stöhr, Conand & Boissin, 2008; — O’Hara et al., 2018: 14.
• Renetheo McKnight, 2003: 5–6.
  • Type species: Renetheo felli McKnight, 2003, by original designation.
  • Etymology: named after Jean Baptiste François René Koehler & Ole Theodor Jensen Mortensen
  • Synonymized by Stöhr, Conand & Boissin (2008).

References

• Koehler, J.B.F.R. 1922. Ophiurans of the Philippine Seas and adjacent waters. United States national museum bulletin 100(5): 1–486. BHL Reference page. 
• McKnight, D.G. 2003. New brittle-stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from New Zealand waters. Zootaxa 352(1): 1–36. DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.352.1.1 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. 
• Stöhr, S., Conand, C. & Boissin, E. 2008. Brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from La Réunion and the systematic position of Ophiocanops Koehler, 1922. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153(3): 545–560. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00401.x . Reference page. 

Links

• Ophiocanops Koehler, 1922 in the World Ophiuroidea Database, accessed on October 03, 2025