Ophiura ljungmani

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiurina
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 Subordo: Ophiurina

Familia: Ophiuridae
Genus: Ophiura
Species: Ophiura ljungmani

Name

Ophiura ljungmani (Lyman, 1878)

Original combination: Ophioglypha ljungmani Lyman, 1878

Type locality: HMS Challenger Expedition 1873-1876 station 122. Atlantic Ocean, Brazil. 9°05′00″S 34°49′00″W / 9.0833333°S 34.816666°W / -9.0833333; -34.816666. Depth 350 fms.

Syntypes: MCZ OPH-980 [1]; MCZ OPH-640 [2]; NHMUK 1957.8.26.3 [3].

Etymology: named after Axel Vilhelm Ljungman.

Synonymy

Ophioglypha lepida Lyman, 1878: 70–71, pl. 3 figs. 71–73; 1882: 43–44, pl. 4 figs. 1–3; — Downey, 1969: 123.
- Synonymised by Mortensen (1933: 83)
- Syntypes: MCZ OPH-631 [4]; NHMUK 1957.8.26.9 [5].
Ophioglypha ljungmani Lyman, 1878: 71–72, pl. 3 fig. 77; 1882: 44–45, pl. 4 figs. 8–10; — H.L. Clark, 1900: 243; — Koehler, 1896: 71; 1907: 263–264; 1909: 152; 1914: 21–22; 1921: 3; — Downey, 1969: 123.
Ophioglypha thouleti Koehler, 1895: 456–458, fig. 4; 1901: 230–231; 1909: 158–159, pl. 6 fig. 6; pl. 26 figs. 1–2.
- Synonymised by Koehler (1914: 21)
- Type locality: Bay of Biscay.
Ophiura lepida (Lyman, 1878) Meissner, 1901: 925; — Matsumoto, 1915: 81; — H.L. Clark, 1915: 321; 1941: 82.
- Synonymised by Mortensen (1933: 83)
Ophiura ljungmani (Lyman, 1878) Meissner, 1901: 925; — Farran, 1913: 31–33, figs. 4–5; — Matsumoto, 1915: 81; — H.L. Clark, 1915: 321; — Mortensen, 1927: 240–242, fig. 130; 1933: 83–84; — Tommasi, 1970: 79–80; — Cherbonnier & Sibuet, 1972: 1382; — Gage et al., 1983: 298–299; — Borges, Monteiro & Amaral, 2002: 27, figs. 15–18; — Stöhr & Segonzac, 2005: 386; — Martynov & Litvinova, 2008: 80, fig. 1d; — Hernández-Herrejón, Solís-Marín & Laguarda-Figueras, 2008: 101–102, figs. 3E–F; — Borges, Alitto & Amaral, 2015: 370–371, figs. 20–23; — Madeira, et al., 2019: 53–54; — Stöhr, & O’Hara, 2021: 514–516, figs. 2f–h; — O’Hara & Thuy, 2022: 4–8, fig. 3A–B.
Ophiura thouleti (Koehler, 1895) Meissner, 1901: 925; — Matsumoto, 1915: 81.
- Synonymised by Koehler (1914: 21)
Ophiura (Ophiura) ljungmani (Lyman, 1878); — Paterson, 1985: 118–120, fig. 44; — Alvà & Vadon, 1989: 841, fig. 8a–b; — Smirnov et al., 2014: 205.

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