Ophiomyxidae Ljungman, 1867
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https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2018.416 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3816311 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039E87E8-1F6E-3025-FDBE-FA037BDFFD9B |
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Ophiomyxidae Ljungman, 1867 |
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Family Ophiomyxidae Ljungman, 1867
Synonym
Ophiarachninae Matsumoto, 1915: 83 .
Type genus
Ophiomyxa Müller & Troschel, 1842 (type species: O. pentagona ( Lamarck, 1816)) .
Other genera
Neoplax Bell, 1884 , Ophiarachna Müller & Troschel, 1842 , Ophioconis Lütken, 1869 , Ophiostiba Matsumoto, 1915 , Ophiurochaeta Matsumoto, 1915 .
Diagnosis
Dorsal disc covered with granules or naked thickened skin, scales reduced in Ophiomyxa . Dental plate fragmented, sockets with flat borders, not penetrating. Ophiarachna with small ventral tooth cluster. Hyaline, large, flat, serrated teeth in Ophiomyxa and Ophioconis . Lateral arm plates reminiscent of an upside-down Y-shape. Arm spine articulation without sigmoidal fold. Arm spine articulations generally larger than in Ophiodermatidae and Ophiopezidae fam. nov. and in shallower notches or on same level as plate stereom ( Ophiomyxa ), of rounded shape with smooth stereom.
Remarks
Ophiomyxa has a specialized morphology with many reductions of the skeleton and is thus not typical for this family but the name has priority. Ophiocanopidae Mortensen, 1932 was synonymized with Ophiomyxidae by Stöhr et al. (2008) but Ophiocanops is now a member of Ophiacanthidae .
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Ophiomyxidae Ljungman, 1867
Stöhr, Sabine, Hugall, Andrew F., Thuy, Ben & Martynov, Alexander 2018 |
Ophiarachninae
Matsumoto H. 1915: 83 |