Ophientrema scolopendrica

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: Ophientrema
Species: Ophientrema scolopendrica

Name

Ophientrema scolopendrica (Lyman, 1883) Verrill, 1899

original combination: Ophiacantha scolopendrica Lyman, 1883

Synonymy

Ophiacantha leucosticta H.L. Clark, 1911

Ophientrema leucosticta (H.L. Clark, 1911)
Ophientrema leucostictum (H.L. Clark, 1911)

Synonymysed by Matsumoto (1917)

Type locality: Albatross: station 4980, off eastern Japan, 34°9'N 137°55'E. Depth: 507 fathoms, brown mud, fine sand, foraminifera, bottom temperature 39°.

Holotype: USNM 25549 [1]

Paratype: MCZ OPH-3204 [2]

Ophiacantha scolopendrica Lyman, 1883
Ophientrema scolopendricum (Lyman, 1883) [wrong ending of epithet]

References

Clark, H.L. 1911. North Pacific Ophiurans in the collection of the United States National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 75: 1-302. BHL Reference page. [original description of Ophiacantha leucosticta p. 235–236]
Lyman, T. 1883. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Carribbean Sea (1878-79), and on the east coast of the United States, during the summer of 1880, by the U.S. coast survey steamer “Blake”, commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XX.- Report on the Ophiuroidea. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 10(6), 227-287. BHL Reference page. [original description of Ophiacantha scolopendrica p. 259–260]
Nethupul, H., Stöhr, S. & Zhang, H-B. 2022. New species, redescriptions and new records of deep-sea brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the South China Sea, an integrated morphological and molecular approach. European Journal of Taxonomy. 810(1): 1–95. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.810.1723 Reference page. [as Ophientrema scolopendrica p. 39–44]
Matsumoto, H. 1917. A monograph of Japanese Ophiuroidea, arranged according to a new classification. The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo. 38: 1–408. BHL Reference page. [as Ophientrema scolopendricum p. 111, source of synonymy]
Verrill, A.E. 1899. North American Ophiuroidea. II. A faunal catalogue of the known species of Ophiuroidea from the West Indian Region. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 10: 372-386. BHL. Reference page. [as Ophientrema scolopendrica p. 332, nov. comb.]