Ophiuroidea taxon details

Ophiothamnus venustus Matsumoto, 1915

244089 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:244089)

  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. Gnathophiurina (Suborder)
  11. Ophiactoidea (Superfamily)
  12. Ophiothamnidae (Family)
  13. Ophiothamnus (Genus)
  14. Ophiothamnus venustus (Species)
accepted
Species
Ophiothamnus Lyman, 1869
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Matsumoto, H. (1915). A new classification of the Ophiuroidea: with description of new genera and species. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 68: 43-92., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1708443 [details] 
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiothamnus venustus Matsumoto, 1915. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=244089 on 2026-08-19
Date
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2007-07-18 12:17:12Z
created
Stöhr, Sabine

original description Matsumoto, H. (1915). A new classification of the Ophiuroidea: with description of new genera and species. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 68: 43-92., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1708443 [details] 

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

basis of record Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
Syntype MCZ OPH-3897 [details]
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Japanese ヒメクモヒトデ  [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) 
To MCZbase - Harvard University (MCZ OPH-3897) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (1 record) 

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