Amphilimna

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophionereidoidea

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: Ophintegrida Ordo: Amphilepidida Subordo: Ophionereidina Superfamilia: Ophionereidoidea

Familia: Amphilimnidae
Genus: Amphilimna
Species (11 + †1): A. cribriformis – A. granulosa – †A. intersepultosetme – A. mirabilis – A. multispina – A. nike – A. olivacea – A. polyacantha – A. sinica – A. tanyodes – A. transacta – A. valida

Name

Amphilimna Verrill, 1899

Type species: Ophiocnida olivacea Lyman, 1869, by original designation.

Synonymy

• Amphilimna Verrill, 1899: 30; — Thomas, 1967: 123; — Devaney, 1974: 121–123; — Martynov, 2010: 47–52, 121, 122; — O’Hara et al., 2018: 19.
• Anamphiura H.L. Clark, 1939: 70.
  • Type species: Anamphiura valida H.L. Clark, 1939, by original designation.
  • Synonymised by A.M. Clark (1974: 479).
• Amphitarsus H.L. Clark, 1941: 83–84.
  • Type species: Amphitarsus mirabilis H.L. Clark, 1941, by original designation.
  • Synonymised by Devaney (1974: 122).
• Sinophiura Liao, 1983: 179–180.
  • Type species: Amphilimna multispina Koehler, 1922, by original designation.
  • Synonymised by Martynov (2010: 121).

References

• Clark, A.M. 1974. Notes on some Echinoderms from southern Africa. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), zoology. 26(6): 423-487, 3 pls, 16 figs, 1 map, 3 tables. BHL Reference page. 
• Clark, H.L. 1939. Ophiuroidea. The John Murray Expedition 1933-34. Scientific reports. London: The Trustees of the British Museum. 6: 29-136. BHL.Reference page. 
• Clark, H.L. 1941. Reports on the scientific results of the Atlantis expeditions to the West Indies, under the joint auspices of the University of Havana and Harvard University. The Echinoderms (other than holothurians). Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural. 15(1): 1-154, 10 plates. Reference page. 
• Devaney, D.M. 1974. Shallow-Water Asterozoans of Southeastern Polynesia II. Ophiuroidea. Micronesica. 10(1): 105-192. PDF Reference page. 
• Liao, Y. 1989. On Amphilimna polyacantha sp. nov. and the systematic position of A. multispina Koehler (Ophiuroidea). Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology. 1: 177–184. DOI: 10.1007/BF02900482 . Reference page. 
• Martynov, A. 2010. Reassessment of the classification of the Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata), based on morphological characters. I. General character evaluation and delineation of the families Ophiomyxidae and Ophiacanthidae. Zootaxa. 2697: 1–154. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2697.1.1 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. 
• Thomas, L.P. 1967. The systematic position of Amphilimna (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 80: 123–130. BHL. Reference page. 
• Verrill, A.E. 1899. Report on the Ophiuroidea collected by the Bahama Expedition from the University of Iowa in 1893. Bulletin from the laboratories of natural history of the State University of Iowa. 5(1): 1-86; plates I-VIII. BHL. Reference page. 

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