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Amphipholis strata Mortensen, 1933 (basis of record)
Amphiura (Amphiura) atlantica Ljungman, 1867 (basis of record)
Amphiura incana Lyman, 1879 represented as Amphiura (Amphiura) incana Lyman, 1879 (additional source)
Amphiura linearis Mortensen, 1933 represented as Amphiura (Amphiura) linearis Mortensen, 1933 (basis of record)
Amphiura uncinata Koehler, 1904 represented as Amphiura (Amphiura) uncinata Koehler, 1904 (basis of record)
Asterias euryale Retzius, 1783 accepted as Astrocladus euryale (Retzius, 1783) (source of synonymy)
Asteroceras spinigerum Mortensen, 1933 accepted as Astroceras spinigerum Mortensen, 1933 (basis of record)
Asteronyx loveni Müller & Troschel, 1842 (basis of record)
Asteroschema capensis Mortensen, 1925 accepted as Asteromorpha capensis (Mortensen, 1925) (basis of record)
Asterostegus tuberculatus Mortensen, 1933 (basis of record)
Astroboa nigra Döderlein, 1911 accepted as Astroboa nuda (Lyman, 1874) (source of synonymy)
Astroboa nuda (Lyman, 1874) (additional source)
Astrocladus africanus Mortensen, 1933 (basis of record)
Astrocladus euryale (Retzius, 1783) (additional source)
Astrocladus hirtus Mortensen, 1933 (basis of record)
Astroconus capensis Mortensen, 1933 accepted as Astrodendrum capensis (Mortensen, 1933) accepted as Astrodendrum capense (Mortensen, 1933) (basis of record)
Astrophyton nudum Lyman, 1874 accepted as Astroboa nuda (Lyman, 1874) (source of synonymy)
Astrothorax papillata (H.L. Clark, 1923) accepted as Astrothorax waitei (Benham, 1909) (basis of record)
Astrothorax waitei (Benham, 1909) (basis of record)
Cryptopelta aster (Lyman, 1879) (additional source)
Dictenophiura anoidea H.L. Clark, 1923 accepted as Ophiura (Dictenophiura) anoidea H.L. Clark, 1923 (basis of record)
Gorgonocephalus pustulatum (H.L. Clark, 1916) (basis of record)
Macrophiothrix aspidota (Müller & Troschel, 1842) (additional source)
Macrophiothrix demessa (Lyman, 1861) (additional source)
Macrophiothrix longipeda (Lamarck, 1816) (additional source)
Macrophiothrix mossambica J.B Balinsky, 1957 accepted as Macrophiothrix demessa (Lyman, 1861) (source of synonymy)
Ophiacantha durbanensis Mortensen, 1933 accepted as Ophiotreta durbanensis (Mortensen, 1933) (source of synonymy)
Ophiacantha nerthepsila H.L. Clark, 1923 (basis of record)
Ophiacantha scutigera Mortensen, 1933 (basis of record)
Ophiactis abyssicola (M. Sars, 1861) (additional source)
Ophiactis capensis Hertz, 1927 accepted as Ophiactis carnea Ljungman, 1867 (source of synonymy)
Ophiactis modesta Brock, 1888 (basis of record)
Ophiactis nidarosiensis Mortensen, 1920 (additional source)
Ophiarachnella capensis (Bell, 1888) (additional source)
Ophiochasma nitida Hertz, 1927 (basis of record)
Ophiochiton australis H.L. Clark, 1923 accepted as Ophionereis australis (H.L. Clark, 1923) (source of synonymy)
Ophiocirce inutilis Koehler, 1904 accepted as Ophioleuce seminudum Koehler, 1904 (additional source)
Ophiocoma pusilla (Brock, 1888) accepted as Breviturma pusilla (Brock, 1888) (additional source)
Ophiocten amitinum Lyman, 1878 (additional source)
Ophiocten latens Koehler, 1906 accepted as Ophiocten hastatum Lyman, 1878 (additional source)
Ophiodaphne scripta (Koehler, 1904) (additional source)
Ophioderma leonis Döderlein, 1910 accepted as Ophioderma wahlbergii Müller & Troschel, 1842 (source of synonymy)
Ophioglypha costata Lyman, 1878 accepted as Ophiura (Ophiuroglypha) costata costata (Lyman, 1878) accepted as Ophiuroglypha costata (Lyman, 1878) (basis of record)
Ophiogymna Ljungman, 1866 (basis of record)
Ophiogymna capensis (Lütken, 1869) (basis of record)
Ophiogymna fulgens (Koehler, 1905) accepted as Ophiogymna pellicula (Duncan, 1887) (basis of record)
Ophiogymna pellicula (Duncan, 1887) (basis of record)
Ophiolepis dubia Müller & Troschel, 1842 accepted as Ophionereis dubia (Müller & Troschel, 1842) represented as Ophionereis dubia dubia (Müller & Troschel, 1842) (source of synonymy)
Ophiomastix pusilla Brock, 1888 accepted as Ophiocoma pusilla (Brock, 1888) accepted as Breviturma pusilla (Brock, 1888) (source of synonymy)
Ophiomastix variabilis Koehler, 1905 (additional source)
Ophiomisidium pulchellum (Wyville Thomson, 1877) (additional source)
Ophiomitrella Verrill, 1899 (additional source)
Ophiomitrella hamata Mortensen, 1933 accepted as Ophiosemnotes hamata (Mortensen, 1933) (basis of record)
Ophiomusium lymani Wyville-Thomson, 1873 accepted as Ophiomusa lymani (Wyville Thomson, 1873) (additional source)
Ophiomyxa bengalensis Koehler, 1897 (basis of record)
Ophiomyxa tenuispina Mortensen, 1933 (basis of record)
Ophionereis australis (H.L. Clark, 1923) (additional source)
Ophionereis dubia (Müller & Troschel, 1842) represented as Ophionereis dubia dubia (Müller & Troschel, 1842) (additional source)
Ophiopeza aster Lyman, 1879 accepted as Cryptopelta aster (Lyman, 1879) (source of synonymy)
Ophioplinthaca sexradia Mortensen, 1933 (basis of record)
Ophioscolex Müller & Troschel, 1842 (additional source)
Ophioscolex dentatus Lyman, 1878 represented as Ophiolycus dentatus (Lyman, 1878) (basis of record)
Ophioscolex inermis Mortensen, 1933 (basis of record)
Ophiothamnus remotus Lyman, 1878 (basis of record)
Ophiothamnus remotus cordatus Mortensen, 1933 accepted as Ophiothamnus remotus Lyman, 1878 (source of synonymy)
Ophiothrix capensis Lütken, 1869 accepted as Ophiogymna capensis (Lütken, 1869) (source of synonymy)
Ophiothrix demessa Lyman, 1861 accepted as Macrophiothrix demessa (Lyman, 1861) (source of synonymy)
Ophiothrix fragilis (Abildgaard in O.F. Müller, 1789) (additional source)
Ophiothrix mauritiensis de Loriol, 1893 accepted as Macrophiothrix demessa (Lyman, 1861) (source of synonymy)
Ophiotreta durbanensis (Mortensen, 1933) (additional source)
Ophiura (Ophiuroglypha) costata tumida Mortensen, 1933 accepted as Ophiuroglypha tumida (Mortensen, 1933) (new combination reference)
Ophiura flagellata (Lyman, 1878) (additional source)
Ophiura irrorata (Lyman, 1878) represented as Ophiura (Ophiuroglypha) irrorata (Lyman, 1878) accepted as Ophiuroglypha irrorata (Lyman, 1878) represented as Ophiuroglypha irrorata irrorata (Lyman, 1878) (source of synonymy)
Paracrocnida sacensis (Balinsky, 1957) accepted as Paracrocnida persica Mortensen, 1940 (new combination reference)
Pectinura capensis Bell, 1888 accepted as Ophiarachnella capensis (Bell, 1888) (source of synonymy)
Agulhas Bank for Ophioscolex dentatus Lyman, 1878
Agulhas Bank for Ophiothamnus remotus Lyman, 1878
Andaman and Nicobar Islands Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiomyxa bengalensis Koehler, 1897
Cape Point for Amphipholis strata Mortensen, 1933
Durban for Amphiura linearis Mortensen, 1933
Durban for Asteroceras spinigerum Mortensen, 1933
Durban for Asterostegus tuberculatus Mortensen, 1933
Durban for Ophiacantha scutigera Mortensen, 1933
Durban for Ophiomitrella hamata Mortensen, 1933
Durban for Ophioscolex inermis Mortensen, 1933
Durban for Ophiura costata tumida Mortensen, 1933
East London for Ophiomyxa tenuispina Mortensen, 1933
East London for Ophioplinthaca sexradia Mortensen, 1933
East Timorian Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocircus inutilis Koehler, 1904
Eastern Cape, Province of the for Ophiacantha nerthepsila H.L. Clark, 1923
False Bay (South Africa) for Dictenophiura anoidea H.L. Clark, 1923
False Bay (South Shetland Islands) for Ophiura affinis simulans (Mortensen, 1936)
Java Sea for Amphiura uncinata Koehler, 1904
Kepulauan Paternoster for Ophiogymna fulgens (Koehler, 1905)
KwaZulu-Natal for Astroconus capensis Mortensen, 1933
Madagascar for Astrophiura permira Sladen, 1879
Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone for Macrophiothrix longipeda (Lamarck, 1816)
Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocoma scolopendrina (Lamarck, 1816)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Amphilycus scripta (Koehler, 1904)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Amphiophiura trifolium Hertz, 1927
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Amphioplus (Lymanella) integer (Ljungman, 1867)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Amphiura (Amphiura) capensis Ljungman, 1867 (doubtful)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Amphiura candida Ljungman, 1867
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Amphiura inhacensis J.B. Balinsky, 1957
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Astroboa nuda (Lyman, 1874)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Macrophiothrix aspidota (Müller & Troschel, 1842) (doubtful)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Macrophiothrix demessa (Lyman, 1861)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Macrophiothrix hirsuta cheneyi (Lyman, 1861)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Macrophiothrix longipeda (Lamarck, 1816)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiacantha baccata Mortensen, 1933
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiactis carnea Ljungman, 1867
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiactis delagoa J.B. Balinsky, 1957
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiactis modesta Brock, 1888
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiactis savignyi (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocentrus dilatata (Koehler, 1905)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocircus inutilis Koehler, 1904
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocnemis marmorata (Lamarck, 1816)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocoma erinaceus Müller & Troschel, 1842
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocoma pica Müller & Troschel, 1842
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocoma pusilla (Brock, 1888)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocoma scolopendrina (Lamarck, 1816)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocoma valenciae Müller & Troschel, 1842
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocomella sexradia (Duncan, 1887)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiolepis cincta Müller & Troschel, 1842
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiomastix variabilis Koehler, 1905
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiomastix venosa Peters, 1851
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophionereis australis (H.L. Clark, 1923)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophionereis porrecta Lyman, 1860
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophionereis vivipara Mortensen, 1933
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiopallas paradoxa Koehler, 1904
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiopeza fallax Lütken, 1869 (non Peters, 1851)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiothela danae Verrill, 1869
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiothela nuda (H.L. Clark, 1923)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiothrix echinotecta Balinsky, 1957
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiothrix foveolata Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1887
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiothrix propinqua Lyman, 1861
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiothrix proteus Koehler, 1905
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiothrix trilineata Lütken, 1869
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Paracrocnida sacensis (Balinsky, 1957)
Red Sea for Ophiocoma valenciae Müller & Troschel, 1842
South Africa (country) for Amphilepis scutata Mortensen, 1933
South Africa (country) for Amphilimna cribriformis A.M. Clark, 1974
South Africa (country) for Amphioplus (Lymanella) integer (Ljungman, 1867)
South Africa (country) for Amphioplus falcatus Mortensen, 1933
South Africa (country) for Amphioplus furcatus Mortensen, 1933
South Africa (country) for Amphioplus pectinatus Mortensen, 1933
South Africa (country) for Amphipholis similis Mortensen, 1933
South Africa (country) for Amphipholis squamata (Delle Chiaje, 1828)
South Africa (country) for Amphipholis strata Mortensen, 1933
South Africa (country) for Amphiura (Amphiura) atlantica Ljungman, 1867
South Africa (country) for Amphiura (Amphiura) capensis Ljungman, 1867
South Africa (country) for Amphiura (Amphiura) grandisquama natalensis Mortensen, 1933
South Africa (country) for Amphiura africana J.B. Balinsky, 1957
South Africa (country) for Amphiura albella Mortensen, 1933
South Africa (country) for Amphiura incana Lyman, 1879
South Africa (country) for Amphiura linearis Mortensen, 1933
South Africa (country) for Amphiura simonsi A.M. Clark, 1952
South Africa (country) for Amphiura uncinata Koehler, 1904
South Africa (country) for Anamphiura valida H.L. Clark, 1939
South Africa (country) for Asteroceras spinigerum Mortensen, 1933
South Africa (country) for Asteronyx loveni Müller & Troschel, 1842
South Africa (country) for Astrocladus africanus Mortensen, 1933
South Africa (country) for Astrocladus euryale (Retzius, 1783)
South Africa (country) for Astrocladus hirtus Mortensen, 1933
South Africa (country) for Astroconus capensis Mortensen, 1933
South Africa (country) for Astrophiura permira Sladen, 1879
South Africa (country) for Astrothorax papillata (H.L. Clark, 1923)
South Africa (country) for Cryptopelta aster (Lyman, 1879)
South Africa (country) for Dictenophiura anoidea H.L. Clark, 1923
South Africa (country) for Gorgonocephalus pectinatus Mortensen, 1933
South Africa (country) for Macrophiothrix hirsuta cheneyi (Lyman, 1861)
South Africa (country) for Ophiacantha baccata Mortensen, 1933
South Africa (country) for Ophiacantha nerthepsila H.L. Clark, 1923
South Africa (country) for Ophiacantha scutigera Mortensen, 1933
Unknown type, geounit Canary Islands, identified as Ophiomisidium pulchellum (Wyville Thomson, 1877)
Unknown type, geounit Cape Agulhas, identified as Ophiura irrorata (Lyman, 1878)
Unknown type, geounit Norway, identified as Ophiactis nidarosiensis Mortensen, 1920
Unknown type, geounit Simon's Bay, identified as Amphiura incana Lyman, 1879
Syntype SMNH Type-3287, geounit Kattegat, identified as Asteronyx loveni Müller & Troschel, 1842
Sexually dimrophic species, epizoic on cake urchins Echinodiscus bisperforatus and E. auritus [details]
Description: disc scales with scattered pointed spinelets; single thick oral papilla, no infradental papilla; ... [details]
Clark & Courtman-Stock record the species as observed from South Africa, without further details. [details]
General distribution: temperate, discontinuous (Pacific and Atlantic Oceans), depth range 62-2963 m. (Rowe & Gates, ... [details]
Distribution: South Africa, not known more precisely. [details]
Distribution: also atlantic coast of S Africa (Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976). [details]
Also reported from Morocco and Ivory coast (Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976). [details]
Also distributed in East Indies, Philippine and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, ... [details]
Also distributed in Gilbert Islands (Clark, 1954). [details]
Also distributed in Saipan (Clark, 1954). [details]
Also distributed in Maldives, Andamans, Lesser Sunda Island and southern Japan in depths from about 400-2800 m. ... [details]
Distribution: occurs ao on the Atlantic Coast of South Africa (Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976 [554]) [details]
benthic, continental shelf, continental slope. General distribution: temperate, South Africa, west Pacific Ocean, ... [details]
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, deposit feeder. General distribution: temperate, discontinuous (west ... [details]
Ecology: benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, abyssal. General distribution: temperate, circumglobal ... [details]
Ecology: benthic, continental slope. Depth range 318-2300 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Also previously recorded in ... [details]
Ecology: benthic, continental slope. General distribution: temperate, discontinuous, South Africa, New Zealand, ... [details]
Holotype South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa.Type locality: off East London, South Africa, 375m (Rowe & ... [details]
Holotype whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: Red Sea, in Lyman (1865) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Holotype in Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) No. 2278; paratypes in ... [details]
Holotype South African Museum, Cape Town (South Africa) A.6445. Type locality: NW of Lion's Head, Cape Town, South ... [details]
Type species: Tristan da Cunha, 200 m. (Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976). [details]
Types species: Spatangus pusillus Leske, 1778 (=Echinus cordatus Pennant, 1777) by subsequent designation (Rowe & ... [details]
Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: Unknown (Britain) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Type data: syntypes whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: unknown (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Type specie of the genus Keraiophorus Michelin, 1862 (=Coelopleurus L. Agassiz, 1840 (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Syntypes undetermied. Type locality: Norway in Clark & Courtman-Stock (1976), but unknown in Rowe & Gates (1995). [details]
Syntypes ?Zoologisches Museum, Göttingen (Germany) (3 specimens).Type locality: Amboina, Indonesia (Rowe & Gates, ... [details]
Syntypes Natural History Museum, London (England) 1882.12.23.444. Type locality: japan (35°11'N 139°28'E) (Rowe & ... [details]
Type species: Ophiogymna elegans Ljungman, 1866 by monotypy (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Lectotype Museum fürNnaturkunde an der Universität Humbolt zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany) 5429, paralectotype Museum ... [details]
Lectotype Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, paralectotypes Universitait van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, ... [details]
Type species: Ophiacantha vipellis Lyman, 1883 by original designation (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Syntypes (probable) Natural History Museum, London (england). Type locality: off the coast of Ireland (Rowe & ... [details]
Type specie of the genus Cryptopelta H.L. Clark, 1909 (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Syntypes (7 specimens) ?Universitait van Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Type locality: east of Sailus Besar, ... [details]
Also recorded from 'Coin Peros' by Bell (1909) - locality can't be traced. Described by Müller & Troschel ... [details]
Type species: Cidaris cretosa Mantell, 1829 (=Cidaris sceptrifera Mantell, 1822) by subsequent designation in ... [details]
Lyman (1882) intended this to be a synonym of Ophioderma tonagan Lütken, 1872, but assigned his own name to it as ... [details]
Treated as synonym of Astrothorax papillata (H.L. Clark, 1923) in Clark & Courtman-Stock (1976). [details]
Original combination for Henricia reticulata; H. reticulata is junior homonym of H. reticulata of Hayashi, 1940. [details]
In Lyman (1874): Ophiothrix longipeda is a synonym of Ophiothrix propinqua Lyman. But Ophiothrix propinqua is a ... [details]