Perlophiura profundissima

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiurida
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

Familia: Incertae sedis
Genus: Perlophiura
Species: Perlophiura profundissima

Name

Perlophiura profundissima Belyaev & Litvinova, 1972

Type locality: South of Aleutian Islands, RV Vityaz, cruise 45, St. 6088, 04.05.1969, Sigsbee trawl, 5740 m.

Synonymy

Perlophiura profundissima Belyaev & Litvinova, 1972: 7–11, figs. 2, 3_1–3; — Litvinova, 1975: 198–199; — Vadon & Guille, 1984: 598–599, pls. 1, 5; — Paterson, 1985: 145, fig. 55; — Smirnov et al., 2014: 206; — Glover et al., 2016: 42–43, fig. 23; — Mironov et al., 2019: 8; — O’Hara & Thuy, 2022: 14, fig. 5H–I.

References

Belyaev, G.M. & Litvinova, N.M. 1972. Новые роды и виды глубоководных офиур [New genera and species of deep-sea Ophiuroidea]. Byulleten' Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody, Otdel Biologicheskii, N. Ser., 77(3): 5–20. (Russian) DJVU 77(3) Reference page.
Glover, A.G., Wiklund, H., Rabone, M., Amon, D.J., Smith, C.R., O'Hara, T., Mah, C.L. & Dahlgren, T.G. 2016. Abyssal fauna of the UK-1 polymetallic nodule exploration claim, Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Echinodermata. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e7251. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e7251 Reference page.
Litvinova, N.M. 1975. Ophiuroids of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico collected during the 14th cruise of the R/V “Akademik Kurchatov”. Trudy Instituta Okeanologii. 100: 196–204. Reference page.
Mironov, A.N., Dilman, A.B., Gebruk, A.V. , Kremenetskaia, A., Minin, K.V., Smirnov, I.S. 2019. Echinoderms of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench. Progress in Oceanography. 179: 102217. DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2019.102217 . Reference page.
O’Hara, T.D. & Thuy, T. 2022. Biogeography and taxonomy of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from the Îles Saint-Paul and Amsterdam in the southern Indian Ocean. Zootaxa. 5124(1): 1–49. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5124.1.1 Reference page.
Paterson, G.L.J. 1985. The deep-sea Ophiuroidea of the north Atlantic Ocean. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 49(1): 1–162. BHL Reference page.
Smirnov, I.S., Piepenburg, D., Ahearn, C., Juterzenka, K.V. 2014. Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Ophiuroidea. Invertebrate Zoology. 11(1): 192–209. DOI: 10.15298/invertzool.11.1.18 Reference page.
Vadon, C., Guille, A. 1984. Les Ophiuridae (Ophiuroidea, Echinodermata) de la campagne MD 32 du “Marion-Dufresne” autour de l'ile de La Réunion. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 4ème série - Section A - Zoologie. 6(3), 583-615. PDF Internet Archive BHL Reference page.

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