Ophiacanthidae Ljungman, 1867

Stöhr, Sabine, Hugall, Andrew F., Thuy, Ben & Martynov, Alexander, 2018, Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification, European Journal of Taxonomy 416, pp. 1-35 : 14

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2018.416

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AD094812-5768-43E9-BCC2-9226E69F0820

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3816319

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039E87E8-1F6D-3027-FDB6-FEB17A3AFAA0

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scientific name

Ophiacanthidae Ljungman, 1867
status

 

Family Ophiacanthidae Ljungman, 1867

Synonyms

Ophiochondrinae Verrill, 1885: 355 .

Ophioplinthacinae Paterson, 1985: 61 .

Ophiocanopidae Mortensen, 1932: 8 .

Type genus

Ophiacantha Müller & Troschel, 1842 (type species: O. bidentata ( Bruzelius, 1805)) .

Other genera

Ophialcaea Verrill, 1899a , Ophientrema Verrill, 1899b , Ophiocanops Koehler, 1922a , Ophiochondrus Lyman, 1869 , Ophiohamus O’Hara & Stöhr, 2006 , Ophiolebes Lyman, 1878a , Ophiolimna Verrill, 1899a , Ophiomitrella Verrill, 1899a , Ophiomoeris Koehler, 1904 , ‘ Ophiophthalmus’ Matsumoto, 1917, Ophioplinthaca Verrill, 1899b , Ophioripa Koehler, 1922a , Ophiosemnotes Matsumoto, 1917 , Ophiurothamnus Matsumoto, 1917 .

Diagnosis

Dorsal disc fully scaled, with thorny spines or granules, or with thickened skin. No tooth clusters. Dental plate entire with single column of wide sockets with low dorsal and ventral border, not penetrating. Arm spine articulations bordered by raised, dorsoventrally striated ridge. Ventral portion of lateral arm plates (the portion below the row of spine articulations) small and not protruding ventro-proximalwards. Ridge on inner side of lateral arm plates with two kinks and a dorsal tip with a ventro-proximalwards pointing projection.

Remarks

The genera Ophiacantha , Ophiomitrella and Ophiolebes are polyphyletic and require revision.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Ophiuroidea

Order

Ophiurida

Family

Ophiacanthidae

Loc

Ophiacanthidae Ljungman, 1867

Stöhr, Sabine, Hugall, Andrew F., Thuy, Ben & Martynov, Alexander 2018
2018
Loc

Ophiocanopidae

Mortensen T. 1932: 8
1932
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