Ophiocreas

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Euryalida
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: Euryalida

Familia: Euryalidae
Genus: Ophiocreas
Species: O. ambonesicum – O. carnosus – O. caudatus – O. gilolense – O. glutinosum – O. japonicus – O. lumbricus – O. mindorense – O. mortenseni – O. oedipus – O. sibogae – O. spinulosus – O. willsi

Name

• Ophiocreas Lyman, 1869
  • Type species: Ophiocreas lumbricus Lyman, 1869, by monotypy

Synonyms

• Asteroschema (Ophiocreas) Lyman, 1869

References

• Clark, H.L. 1908. Some Japanese and East Indian Echinoderms. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 51(11): 279-311. BHL Reference page.  [as Ophiocreas p. 299–301]
• Lyman, T. 1869. Preliminary report on the Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae dredged in deep water between Cuba and the Florida Reef, by L.F. de Pourtales, Assist. U.S. Coast Survey. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 1: 309-354. BHL Reference page.  [as Ophiocreas p. 347 BHL (original description)]
• McKnight, D.G. 2000. The marine fauna of New Zealand: basket-stars and snake-stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Euryalinida). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 115. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research: Wellington. 79 pp. ISBN 0-478-23215-2. PDF Reference page.  [as Ophiocreas p. 30]