Ophioculina Rousseau & Thuy, 2018

Rousseau, Julie, Gale, Andrew Scott & Thuy, Ben, 2018, New articulated asteroids (Echinodermata, Asteroidea) and ophiuroids (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) from the Late Jurassic (Volgian / Tithonian) of central Spitsbergen, European Journal of Taxonomy 411, pp. 1-26 : 16

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.411
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:20D7A744-CE8B-4E6C-92DA-71A9B8C3D805
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3816181
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E82E3C6B-7193-4082-9FDD-6549411E1EFB
taxon LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:act:E82E3C6B-7193-4082-9FDD-6549411E1EFB
treatment provided by	Valdenar
scientific name	Ophioculina Rousseau & Thuy
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Ophioculina Rousseau & Thuy View in CoL gen. nov.

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Type species

Ophioculina hoybergia Rousseau & Thuy View in CoL gen. et sp. nov., by original designation.

Diagnosis

Dorsal disc with numerous, small, thin scales. Well-developed arm comb. Tentacle pores developed as between-plate openings pointing ventro-distalwards until median arm then reduced to within-plate perforations.

Etymology

From the Latin ‘ culina ’, kitchen, since most of the specimens where discovered accidentally while clearing a surface area for the kitchen tent of the 2010 field camp.

Copyright notice

No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Echinodermata
Class	Ophiuroidea
Order	Ophiurida
Family	Ophiopyrgidae

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