Ophiuroidea name details

Ophiomastix elegans Brock, 1888

243726  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:243726)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Asterozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Ophiuroidea (Class)
  6. Myophiuroida (Subclass)
  7. Metophiurida (Infraclass)
  8. Ophintegrida (Superorder)
  9. Ophiacanthida (Order)
  10. Ophiodermatina (Suborder)
  11. Ophiocomoidea (Superfamily)
  12. Ophiocomidae (Family)
  13. Ophiomastix (Genus)
  14. Ophiomastix elegans (Species)
 unaccepted (Homonym after transfer of Ophiarthrum elegans to Ophiomastix by O'Hara et al. (2019))
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Brock, J. (1888). Die Ophiuridenfauna des indischen Archipels. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 47, 465-539., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49595476 [details] 
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiomastix elegans Brock, 1888. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=243726 on 2026-06-10
Date
action
by
2007-07-18 12:17:12Z
created
Stöhr, Sabine
2018-10-26 11:40:13Z
changed
Stöhr, Sabine
2023-12-05 15:17:39Z
changed
Stöhr, Sabine

original description Brock, J. (1888). Die Ophiuridenfauna des indischen Archipels. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 47, 465-539., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49595476 [details] 

basis of record Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
To Barcode of Life 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ophiomastix elegans) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (4 records) 

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