Amphiura chiajei

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Amphiuroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Cryptosyringida Classis: Ophiuroidea Subclasse: Myophiuroidea Infraclasse: Metophiurida Superordo: Euryophiurida Ordo: Ophiurida Subordo: Gnathophiurina Superfamilia: Amphiuroidea

Familia: Amphiuridae
Genus: Amphiura
Species: Amphiura chiajei

Name

Amphiura chiajei Forbes, 1843

Type locality: Aegean Sea, Mediterranean Sea.

Etymology: named after Stefano Delle Chiaje.

Synonymy

(List may be incomplete)

Amphiura chiajei Forbes, 1843: 151; — Lütken, 1857: 95; — Lyman, 1865: 119; — Ljungman: 1867: 318; — Lütken, 1869: 75; — Storm, 1879: 248–249; — Süssbach & Breckner, 1911: 253–255; — Mortensen, 1936: 287; — Madsen, 1970: 167–168; — A.M. Clark, 1970: 7; — Paterson, 1985: 87–88, fig. 34; — Madeira et al., 2019: 161–162; — Macías-Ramírez, García-Guillén & Manjón-Cabeza, 2024: fig. 6a–e.
Amphiura florifera Forbes, 1843: 150.
- Synonymised by Lütken (1869: 75).
Amphiura rancureli Tomasi, 1967
- Synonymised by by Madsen (1970: 167).

References

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.
Forbes, E. 1843. On the Radiata of the Eastern Mediterranean. Part I., Ophiuridae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 19: 143-153. BHL Reference page.
Ljungman, A. [1866] 1867. Ophiuroidea viventia huc usque cognita enumerat. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 23(9): 303–336. BHL Reference page.
Lütken, C.F. 1857. De ved Danmarks kyster levende Pighude. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn. 1854-56: 88-110. BHL Reference page.
Lütken, C.F. 1869. Additamenta ad historiam Ophiuridarum. Beskrivende og kritiske bidrag til kundskab om slangestjernerne. Tredie Afdelning. Det kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter. Naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk Afdelning. 8: 20-109. BHL Reference page.
Lyman, T. 1865. Illustrated catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College, No. 1: Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae. viii+200 pp.; pl. I–II; fig. 1–19. BHL Reference page.
Macías-Ramírez, A., García-Guillén, L.M., Manjón-Cabeza, M.E. 2024. Deep-Sea Ophiuroids (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) from the Avilés Canyon System: Seven New Records for the Spanish North Atlantic Marine Subdivision. Diversity. 16(7): 1–21. DOI: 10.3390/d16070407 . Reference page.
Madeira, P., Kroh, A., Cordeiro, R., Frias Martins, A.M. de & Ávila, S.P. 2019. The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean). Zootaxa 4639(1): 1–231. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1.1 PDF. Reference page.
Madsen, F.J. 1970. West African Ophiuroids. Atlantide Report : Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946. 11: 151–243. Reference page.
Mortensen, T. 1936. Echinoidea and Ophiuroidea. Discovery Reports. 12: 199–348, pls. 1–9. BHL Reference page.
Paterson, G.L.J. 1985. The deep-sea Ophiuroidea of the north Atlantic Ocean. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 49(1): 1–162. BHL Reference page.
Storm, V.F.J. 1879. Beretning om Selskabets zoologiske Samling i Aaret 1877. Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter. 8: 223–261. BHL. Reference page.
Süssbach, S. & Breckner, A. 1911. Die Seeigel, Seesterne und Schlangensterne der Nord- und Ostsee. Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen Abt. Kiel. 12: 167–300. BHL.Reference page.

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