Silax abditus

Familia: Amphiuridae
Genus: Silax
Species: Silax abditus

Silax abditus (A.M. Clark, 1970)

• Original combination: Triodia abdita A.M. Clark, 1970

• ZooBank: DF41687C-75BC-47C3-B48B-33CEDA9B979F

• Type locality: Albatross station 3361. Gulf of Panama. 6°10′00″N 83°00′00″W / 6.16666666°N 83.000000°W / 6.16666666; -83.000000, depth 1471 fms.

• Holotype: MCZ:IZ:OPH-1488 [1].

• Triodia abdita A.M. Clark, 1970: 67–69, fig. 10.
• Triplodia abdita (A.M. Clark, 1970) Turner & Hallan, 2011: 7–8.
• Silax abditus (A.M. Clark, 1970) Stöhr & O’Hara, 2021: 525.

• Clark, A.M. 1970. Notes on the family Amphiuridae (Ophiuroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), zoology 19(1): 1–81. BHL Reference page. 
• Stöhr, S. & O’Hara, T.D. 2021. Deep-sea Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from the Danish Galathea II Expedition, 1950–52, with taxonomic revisions. Zootaxa 4963(3): 505–529. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4963.3.6 Reference page. 
• Turner, R.L. & Hallan, J.K. 2011. Triplodia, replacement name for Triodia A. M. Clark, 1970 (Ophiuroidea: Amphiuridae), non Hübner, 1820 (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 124(1): 7–8. DOI: 10.2988/09-32.1 . Reference page. 

• Triodia abdita A.M. Clark, 1970 in the World Ophiuroidea Database, accessed on October 21, 2025