Ophiotholia

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

Ophiotholia Lyman, 1880

Type species: Ophiotholia supplicans Lyman, 1880, by monotypy.

Ophiotholia Lyman, 1880: 4; — Lyman, 1882: 238–239; — Litvinova, 1992; — Thuy & Meyer, 2012: 12, 13; — O’Hara et al., 2018: 11; — Eichsteller et al., 2023: 4.

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.
Litvinova, N.M. 1992. Revision of the genus Ophiotholia (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea). Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal. 71(3): 47–57. Reference page.
Lyman, T. 1880. A structural feature, hitherto unknown among Echinodermata, found in deep-sea ophiurans. Anniversary memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 1-12. 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.
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.
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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