Ophiothamnidae, O'Hara, Stöhr, Hugall, Thuy & Martynov, 2018

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 : 21

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.3816339

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CD418837-0D1F-47AF-BF52-C7BC76C67EFC

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:CD418837-0D1F-47AF-BF52-C7BC76C67EFC

treatment provided by

Valdenar

scientific name

Ophiothamnidae
status

 

Family Ophiothamnidae View in CoL fam. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:CD418837-0D1F-47AF-BF52-C7BC76C67EFC

Type genus

Ophiothamnus Lyman, 1869 (type species: O. vicarius Lyman, 1869 ).

Other genera

Histampica A.M. Clark, 1970 , Ophioleila A.H. Clark, 1949 .

Diagnosis

Dorsal disc with pointed spines ( Ophiothamnus ), naked scales ( Histampica ), or thorny spines ( Ophioleila ). Radial shields large. Infradental papillae small, distal lateral papilla at adoral shield edge widened in Ophiothamnus . Arm spine articulations with two smooth, slightly diverging ridges, not connected. Muscle and nerve openings separated by smooth bridge.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Ophiuroidea

SuperOrder

Ophintegrida

Order

Amphilepidida

SuperFamily

Ophiactoidea

Family

Ophiothamnidae

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