Ophiuroidea taxon details

Ophiopsila xmasilluminans Okanishi, Oba & Fujita, 2019

1392789  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1392789)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Asterozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Ophiuroidea (Class)
  6. Myophiuroida (Subclass)
  7. Metophiurida (Infraclass)
  8. Ophintegrida (Superorder)
  9. Amphilepidida (Order)
  10. Ophiopsilina (Suborder)
  11. Ophiopsiloidea (Superfamily)
  12. Ophiopsilidae (Family)
  13. Ophiopsila (Genus)
  14. Ophiopsila xmasilluminans (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Okanishi, M.; Oba, Y.; Fujita, Y. (2019). Brittle stars from a submarine cave of Christmas Island, northwestern Australia, with description of a new bioluminescent species Ophiopsila xmasilluminans (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) and notes on its behaviour. <em>Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.</em> 67: 421-439., available online at https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2019-0034 [details] 
Holotype  WAM Z99800, geounit Christmas Island part of...  
Holotype WAM Z99800, geounit Christmas Island part of the Indian Ocean [details]
Etymology The specific name is an adjective in apposition formed as a compound of the island name “xmas” and the Latin...  
Etymology The specific name is an adjective in apposition formed as a compound of the island name “xmas” and the Latin participle, illuminans, meaning “lighting”, referring to its sampling locality name (Christmas Island) and luminescence. [details]
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiopsila xmasilluminans Okanishi, Oba & Fujita, 2019. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1392789 on 2026-03-02
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2019-12-12 12:26:50Z
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Stöhr, Sabine

original description Okanishi, M.; Oba, Y.; Fujita, Y. (2019). Brittle stars from a submarine cave of Christmas Island, northwestern Australia, with description of a new bioluminescent species Ophiopsila xmasilluminans (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) and notes on its behaviour. <em>Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.</em> 67: 421-439., available online at https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2019-0034 [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype WAM Z99800, geounit Christmas Island part of the Indian Ocean [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology The specific name is an adjective in apposition formed as a compound of the island name “xmas” and the Latin participle, illuminans, meaning “lighting”, referring to its sampling locality name (Christmas Island) and luminescence. [details]
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English Christmas-light brittle star  [details]
Unreviewed

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