Ophiuroidea taxon details

Ophiurothamnus discycla (H.L. Clark, 1911)

244344 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:244344)

  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. Ophiacanthina (Suborder)
  11. Ophiacanthidae (Family)
  12. Ophiurothamnus (Genus)
  13. Ophiurothamnus discycla (Species)
accepted
Species
Ophiurothamnus Matsumoto, 1917
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Ophiomitra discycla H.L. Clark, 1911) Clark, H. L. (1911). North Pacific Ophiurans in the collection of the United States National Museum. <em>Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin.</em> 75: 1-302., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7866026 [details] 
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiurothamnus discycla (H.L. Clark, 1911). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=244344 on 2026-08-19
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2007-07-18 12:17:12Z
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Stöhr, Sabine

original description (of Ophiomitra discycla H.L. Clark, 1911) Clark, H. L. (1911). North Pacific Ophiurans in the collection of the United States National Museum. <em>Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin.</em> 75: 1-302., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7866026 [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 
Paratype (of Ophiomitra discycla H.L. Clark, 1911) MCZ OPH-3229 [details]
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To MCZbase - Harvard University (MCZ OPH-3229) (from synonym Ophiomitra discycla H.L. Clark, 1911)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (1 record) (from synonym Ophiomitra discycla H.L. Clark, 1911)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (Holotype USNM 25637) (from synonym Ophiomitra discycla H.L. Clark, 1911)

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