Silax cernuus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Amphiuroidea
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: Gnathophiurina Superfamilia: Amphiuroidea

Familia: Amphiuridae
Genus: Silax
Species: Silax cernuus

Name

Silax cernuus (Lyman, 1879)

Original combination: Amphiura cernua Lyman, 1879

Type locality: SE of Japan, HMS Challenger, St. 241, 23.06.1875, 35°41′00″N 157°42′00″E / 35.683333°N 157.700000°E / 35.683333; 157.700000, 4209 m.

Synonymy

Amphiura cernua Lyman, 1879: 28, pl. 12 figs. 323–325; — Lyman, 1882: 138, pl. 17 figs. 13–15.
Amphioplus (Unioplus) cernuus (Lyman, 1879) A.M. Clark, 1970: 40, 42, 48; — Mironov, et al., 2019: 9.
Unioplus cernuus (Lyman, 1879); — Litvinova, 2010: 10–12.
Amphioplus cernuus (Lyman, 1879); — Martynov, 2010: 121, figs. 15L, 31L.
Silax cernuus (Lyman, 1879) Stöhr & O’Hara, 2021: 524.

References

Clark, A.M. 1970. Notes on the family Amphiuridae (Ophiuroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), zoology. 19(1): 1-81. BHL Reference page.
Litvinova, N.M. 2010. Catalogue of Brittle Stars Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea of the World Ocean, from the Collection of the Laboratory of Ocean Benthic Fauna, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Lenand, Moscow. 1-70 pp. (in Russian). 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.
Martynov, A. 2010. Reassessment of the classification of the Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata), based on morphological characters. I. General character evaluation and delineation of the families Ophiomyxidae and Ophiacanthidae. Zootaxa. 2697: 1–154. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2697.1.1 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.
Stöhr, S. & O’Hara, T.D. 2021. Deep-sea Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from the Danish Galathea II Expedition, 1950–52, with taxonomic revisions. Zootaxa 4963(3): 505–529. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4963.3.6 Reference page.