Ophiocomina


Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Ophiacanthina |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Ophiotomidae
Genus: Ophiocomina
Species (2): O. arnaudi – O. nigra
Name
Ophiocomina Koehler in Mortensen, 1920
- Type species: Asterias nigra Abildgaard in Müller, 1789, by monotypy.
Synonymy
- Ophiocomina Koehler in Mortensen, 1920: 50–54; — Koehler, 1922: 316–319; — Mortensen, 1927: 177; — Naughton et al., 2014: 233; — O’Hara et al., 2018: 13.
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.
- Mortensen, O.T.J. 1920. Notes on some Scandinavian Echinoderms with descriptions of two new Ophiuroids. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn. 72: 45–79. BHL. Reference page.
- Mortensen, O.T.J. 1927. Handbook of the echinoderms of the British Isles. Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press: London. IX, 471 pp. BHL Reference page.
- Naughton, K.M., O’Hara, T.D., Appleton, B., Cisternas, P.A. 2014. Antitropical distributions and species delimitation in a group of ophiocomid brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Ophiocomidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 78: 232–124446. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.05.020
. 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.
Links
- Ophiocomina Koehler in Mortensen, 1920 in the World Ophiuroidea Database, accessed on September 19, 2025