Ophiotholia spathifer

Ophiotholia spathifer

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophioscolecida
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: Ophioscolecida

Familia: Ophiohelidae
Genus: Ophiotholia
Species: Ophiotholia spathifer

Name

Ophiotholia spathifer (Lyman, 1879)

Original combination: Ophiomyces spathifer Lyman, 1879

Type locality: Off southern Japan. 34.1166666°N 138.000000°E / 34.1166666; 138.000000. Depth 565 fms.

Syntype: MCZ:IZ:OPH-2142 [1].

Synonymy

• Ophiomyces spathifer Lyman, 1879: 47–48, pl. 14 figs. 386–388; — Lyman, 1882: 240–241, pl. 19 figs. 10–12; — Matsumoto, 1917: 99.
• Ophiotholia multispina Koehler, 1904: 99–100, pl. 33 figs. 4–5; — H.L. Clark, 1915: 221; — McKnight, 1968: 210–211, fig. 3; — Litvinova, 1992: 50 pl. 1 figs. A, B, b, D, H, M, O, pl. 2 figs A–Γ, Η..
  • Type locality: Indonesia.
  • Syntypes: ZMA.ECH.O.2473 [2]; ZMA.ECH.O.2474 [3]; ZMA.ECH.O.2476 [4]; ZMA.ECH.O.2477 [5].
  • Synonymised by Litvinova (1992: 50).
• Ophiotholia spathifer (Lyman, 1879) Fujita, Ishida, Y. & Irimura, 2010: 195, fig. 6; — Thuy & Meyer, 2012: 3, figs. 2D, F; — Eichsteller et al., 2023: 8–9, fig. 10.

References

• Clark, H.L. 1915a. Catalogue of recent ophiurans: based on the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 25(4): 163–376, 20 pls. BHL Reference page. 
• Eichsteller, A., Martynov, A.V., O’Hara, T.D., Christodoulou, M., Korshunova, T.A., Bribiesca-Contreras, G., Martinez Arbizu, P. 2023a. Ophiotholia (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea): A little-known deep-sea genus present in polymetallic nodule fields with the description of a new species. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10: 1056282. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1056282 . Reference page. 
• Fujita, T., Ishida, Y., Irimura, S. 2010. Ophiacanthidae (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) collected from the sagami Sea, central Japan: A preliminary report. In: Harris, L.G., Böttger, S.A., Walker, C.W., Lesser, M.P. (eds.). Echinoderms: Proceedings of the 12th international echinoderm conference. London: Taylor & Francis. Pp. 193–197. Reference page. 
• Koehler, J.B.F.R. 1904. Ophiures de l'expédition du Siboga. Part 1. Ophiures de mer profonde. Siboga Expeditie. E.J. Brill, Leiden. XLV: 1-176, 36 pl. BHL Reference page. 
• Litvinova, N.M. 1992. Revision of the genus Ophiotholia (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea). Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal. 71(3): 47–57. Reference page. 
• Lyman, T. 1879. Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae of the exploring voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger", under Prof. Sir Wyville Thomson, F.R.S. Part II. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 6(2): 17–84. 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. 
• 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. 
• McKnight, D.G. 1968. Some echinoids and ophiuroids from off Norfolk Island and from wanganella bank. New Zealand journal of marine and freshwater research. 2(2): 204–213. DOI: 10.1080/00288330.1968.9515235 Reference page. 
• Thuy, B. & Meyer, C.A. 2012. The pitfalls of extrapolating modern depth ranges to fossil assemblages: new insights from Middle Jurassic brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from Switzerland. Swiss journal of palaeontology 132(1): 5–21. DOI: 10.1007/s13358-012-0048-5 . Reference page. 

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