Ophiomusa anisacantha

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiomusina
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 Suborder Ophiomusina

Familia: Ophiomusaidae
Genus: Ophiomusa
Species: Ophiomusa anisacantha

Name

Ophiomusa anisacantha (H.L. Clark, 1928)

Original combination: Ophiomusium anisacanthum H.L. Clark, 1928
Type locality: South Australia, Spencer or St Vincent Gulfs.
Holotype: SAM K254 [previously E480]

Synonymy

Ophiomusium anisacanthum H.L. Clark, 1928: 446–447, fig. 133; 1946: 274; — Baker, 1979: 31; — Baker & Devaney, 1981: 158, figs. 22–24; — O’Hara, 1990: 292–293; — Baker, 2016: 6, fig. 4a–b.
Ophiomusa anisacantha (H.L. Clark, 1928) O’Hara et al., 2018: 9.

References

Baker, A.N. 1979. Some Ophiuroidea from the Tasman Sea and adjacent waters. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 6(1): 21-51. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1979.10428345 . Reference page.
Baker, A.N. 2016. An illustrated catalogue of type specimens of the bathyal brittlestar genera Ophiomusium Lyman and Ophiosphalma H. L. Clark (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Zootaxa 4097(1): 1–40. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.1 Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Baker, A.N.; Devaney, D.M. 1981. New records of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from southern Australia, including new species of Ophiacantha and Ophionereis. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 105(4): 155–178. BHL full article (PDF) Reference page.
Clark, H.L. 1928. The sea-lilies, sea-stars, brittle-stars and sea-urchins of the South Australian Museum. Records of the South Australian Museum. 3(4): 361-482. BHL Reference page.
Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication. No. 566: 1-567. BHL Reference page.
O’Hara, T.D. 1990. New records of Ophiuridae, Ophiacanthidae and Ophiocomidae (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from southeastern Australia. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria. 50(2): 287–305. DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.1990.50.04 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.