WoRMS taxon details
Perlophiura profundissima Belyaev & Litvinova, 1972
183343 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:183343)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Belyaev, G. M.; Litvinova, N. M. (1972). New genera and species of deep-sea ophiuroidea. <em>Bulleten Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelej Prirody. Otdel Biologicheskii.</em> 3: 5-20. [details] Available for editors
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Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Perlophiura profundissima Belyaev & Litvinova, 1972. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=183343 on 2025-07-14
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Nomenclature
original description
Belyaev, G. M.; Litvinova, N. M. (1972). New genera and species of deep-sea ophiuroidea. <em>Bulleten Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelej Prirody. Otdel Biologicheskii.</em> 3: 5-20. [details] Available for editors
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basis of record BIOCEAN, available online at http://www.ifremer.fr/biocean/ [details]

basis of record BIOCEAN, available online at http://www.ifremer.fr/biocean/ [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Smirnov I.S., Piepenburg D., Ahearn C., Juterzenka K.V. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Ophiuroidea. <i>Invertebrate Zoology</i>. Vol.11. No.1: 192–209 [in English]. [details] Available for editors
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context source (CCZ) Christodoulou, M.; O'Hara, T. D.; Hugall, A. F.; Arbizu, P. M. (2019). Dark Ophiuroid Biodiversity in a Prospective Abyssal Mine Field. <em>Current Biology.</em> 29(22): 3909-3912.e3., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.012 [details] Available for editors
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context source (CCZ) Christodoulou, M.; O'Hara, T. D.; Hugall, A. F.; Arbizu, P. M. (2019). Dark Ophiuroid Biodiversity in a Prospective Abyssal Mine Field. <em>Current Biology.</em> 29(22): 3909-3912.e3., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.012 [details] Available for editors






To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Perlophiura profundissima)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Perlophiura profundissima (1) 1080308)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (1 record)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Perlophiura profundissima)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Perlophiura profundissima (1) 1080308)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (1 record)