Ophiomyxa

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiodermatoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Cryptosyringida Classis: Ophiuroidea Subclasse: Myophiuroidea Infraclasse: Metophiurida Superordo: Ophintegrida Ordo: Ophiacanthida Subordo: Ophiodermatina Superfamilia: Ophiodermatoidea

Familia: Ophiomyxidae
Genus: Ophiomyxa
Species (21 + †2): O. anisacantha – O. australis – O. bengalensis – O. brevicauda – O. brevirima – O. compacta – O. crinita – O. duskiensis – O. fisheri – O. flaccida – †O. jekeria – O. longipeda – O. neglecta – O. panamensis – O. pentagona – O. punctata – †O. rhipidata – O. serpentaria – O. stimpsonii – O. tenuispina – O. tumida – O. vivipara – O. xispa

Name

Ophiomyxa Müller & Troschel, 1840

Type species: Ophiura pentagona Lamarck, 1816, by subsequent designation.

Synonymy

Ophiomyxa Müller & Troschel, 1840: 108; — Lütken, 1856: 21; — Lyman, 1865: 177; — Brock, 1888: 530; — H.L. Clark, 1915: 168; — O’Hara et al., 2018: 15.
Ophiodera Verrill, 1899: 65, 67
- Type species: Ophiomyxa serpentaria Lyman, 1883, by original designation.
- Synonymised by Mortensen (1927: 168).

References

Brock, J.G. 1888. Die Ophiuridenfauna des indischen Archipels. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie. 47: 465–539. BHL Reference page.
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. [see page 168]
Lütken, C.F. 1856. Bidrag til kundskab om Slangestjernerne. III. Bidrag til kundskab om Ophiurerne ved Central-Amerikas Vestkyst. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn. 1854-56: 20-26. BHL Reference page.
Lyman, T. 1865. Illustrated catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College, No. 1: Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae. viii+200 pp.; pl. I–II; fig. 1–19. BHL Reference page.
Mortensen, O.T.J. 1927. Handbook of the echinoderms of the British Isles. Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press: London. IX, 471 pp. BHL Reference page.
Müller, J.P. & Troschel, F.H. 1842. System der Asteriden. Braunschweig, Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn. xxx+134 pp. 12 pls. BHL 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.
Verrill, A.E. 1899. Report on the Ophiuroidea collected by the Bahama Expedition from the University of Iowa in 1893. Bulletin from the laboratories of natural history of the State University of Iowa. 5(1): 1-86; plates I-VIII. BHL. Reference page.