Ophiactis balli

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gnathophiurina
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

Familia: Ophiactidae
Genus: Ophiactis
Species: Ophiactis balli

Name

Ophiactis balli (W. Thompson, 1840)

Original combination: Ophiocoma balli W. Thompson, 1840

Type locality: Irish Sea, Dalkey Sound.

Etymology: named after Robert Ball.

Synonymy

(List may be incomplete)

Ophiocoma ballii W. Thompson, 1840: 99–100; — Forbes, 1841: 35–36.
Ophiolepis ballii (W. Thompson, 1840) Müller & Troschel, 1842: 97.
Ophiopholis ballii (W. Thompson, 1840) Gray, 1848: 25.
Amphiura (Ophiactis) ballii (W. Thompson, 1840) M. Sars, 1859: 42.
Amphiura ballii (W. Thompson, 1840); — M. Sars, 1861: 20–21; — Norman, 1865: 109–110.
Ophiactis ballii (W. Thompson, 1840) Lütken, 1859: 228; — Lyman, 1882: 121; — Hoyle, 1884: 718; 1884a: 143–144; — Süssbach & Breckner, 1911: 252.
Ophiocnida ballii (W. Thompson, 1840) Lyman, 1865: 12.
Ophiactis balli (W. Thompson, 1840); — Bell, 1892: 123–124; — Koehler, 1896: 77–78, figs. 23–24; — Grieg, 1903: 29; — Koehler, 1909: 169; — Farran, 1913: 37; — Koehler, 1921: 83–84, fig. 55; — Mortensen, 1927: 200–202, figs. 112–113; 1933: 51–52; — Gage et al., 1983: 292; — Paterson, 1985: 78–80, fig. 32.

References

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