Name - Ophiacanthidae Perrier 1891

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1959666 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Ophiacanthidae

• Ophiacanthidae (Verrill 1899 Perrier 1891)

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Family

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Deep water Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) of New Caledonia: Ophiacanthidae and Hemieuryalidae.
• Ophiuroids (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the Mexican waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
• Temporary expansion to shelf depths rather than an onshore-offshore trend: the shallow-water rise and demise of the modern deep-sea brittle star family Ophiacanthidae (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea).
• Interactive identification key to all brittle star families (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) leads to revised morphological descriptions.
• Review of Ophioplinthaca Verrill, 1899 (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea, Ophiacanthidae), description of new species in Ophioplinthaca and Ophiophthalmus, and new records from the Northwest Pacific and the South China Sea.

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