Ophiosabine cuspidata

Ophiosabine cuspidata, dorsal view of the disk.

Ophiosabine cuspidata, ventral view of the disk.

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiacanthina
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: Ophiacanthida Subordo: Ophiacanthina

Familia: Ophiacanthidae
Genus: Ophiosabine
Species: Ophiosabine cuspidata

Name

Ophiosabine cuspidata (Lyman, 1878)

original combination: Ophiacantha cuspidata Lyman, 1878

Type locality: Challenger station 344, off Ascension Island. Depth 430 fms.

Syntypes: BMNH; MCZ:IZ:OPH-1942 [1].

Note: Synonymised by Martynov & Litvinova (2008: 91) with Ophiacantha anomala G.O. Sars, 1871, and removed from synonymy by O’Hara & Thuy (2022: 18).

Synonymy

• Ophiacantha cuspidata Lyman, 1878: 143, pl. 10 figs. 248–250; — Lyman, 1882: 191–192, pl. 15 figs. 9–10, pl. 41 figs. 12–14; — Koehler, 1909: 186; — Mortensen, 1927: 189; — Mortensen, 1933: 31–33, figs. 17–18, pl. 3 figs. 3–4; — Gage et al., 1983: 291; — Paterson, 1985: 41–42, fig. 18; — Smirnov et al., 2014: 195–196.
• Ophiosabine cuspidata (Lyman, 1878) O’Hara & Thuy, 2022: 18, fig. 6C–E; — Macías-Ramírez, García-Guillén & Manjón-Cabeza, 2024: fig. 8j–o.

References

• Gage, J.D., Pearson, M., Clark, A.M., Paterson, G.L.J., Tyler, P.A. 1983. Echinoderms of the Rockall Trough and adjacent areas. I. Crinoidea, Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), zoology. 45(5): 263–308. BHL.Reference page. 
• Koehler, J.B.F.R. 1909b. Echinodermes provenant des campagnes du yacht Princesse-Alice (Astéries, Ophiures, Echinides et Crinoïdes). Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques Accomplies sur son Yacht par Albert 1er Prince Souverain de Monaco. 34: 1-317. BHL Reference page. 
• Lyman, T. 1878. Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae of the exploring voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, under Prof. Sir Wyville Thomson, F.R.S. Part 1. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 5(7): 65–168. BHL Reference page. 
• Lyman, T. 1882. Report on the Ophiuroidea dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Reports of Science Research Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger. Zoology 5(14): 1–386. 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. 
• Martynov, A. & Litvinova, N.M. 2008. Deep-water Ophiuroidea of the northern Atlantic with descriptions of three new species and taxonomic remarks on certain genera and species. Marine Biology Research. 4: 76-111. DOI: 10.1080/17451000701840066 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. 
• Mortensen, O.T.J. 1933a. Ophiuroidea. The Danish Ingolf-Expedition. 4(8): 1–121. BHL Reference page. 
• O’Hara, T.D. & Thuy, T. 2022. Biogeography and taxonomy of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from the Îles Saint-Paul and Amsterdam in the southern Indian Ocean. Zootaxa. 5124(1): 1–49. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5124.1.1 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. 
• Smirnov, I.S., Piepenburg, D., Ahearn, C., Juterzenka, K.V. 2014. Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Ophiuroidea. Invertebrate Zoology. 11(1): 192–209. DOI: 10.15298/invertzool.11.1.18 Reference page. 

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