Ophiuroidea name details

Amphioplus acutus Mortensen, 1936

173094  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:173094)

  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. Amphiuroidea (Superfamily)
  12. Amphiuridae (Family)
  13. Amphioplus (Genus)
  14. Amphioplus acutus (Species)
 unaccepted > superseded combination (transferred by O'Hara & Thuy, 2022)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Mortensen, T. (1936). Echinoidea and Ophiuroidea. <em>Discovery Reports.</em> 12: 199-348, pls. 1-9. (iii-1936)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5606952 [details] 
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Amphioplus acutus Mortensen, 1936. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=173094 on 2026-01-23
Date
action
by
2005-07-13 10:16:18Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-07-18 12:17:12Z
checked
Stöhr, Sabine
2022-06-16 13:35:07Z
changed
Stöhr, Sabine

original description Mortensen, T. (1936). Echinoidea and Ophiuroidea. <em>Discovery Reports.</em> 12: 199-348, pls. 1-9. (iii-1936)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5606952 [details] 

basis of record Clarke, Andrew; Johnston, Nadine M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available

new combination reference O'Hara, T. D.; Thuy, B. (2022). Biogeography and taxonomy of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from the Îles Saint-Paul and Amsterdam in the southern Indian Ocean. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5124(1): 1-49., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5124.1.1 [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
Syntype MCZ OPH-5946 [details]
To Barcode of Life 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) 
To MCZbase - Harvard University (MCZ OPH-5946) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Amphioplus acutus Mortensen (USNM E46862) disc, ventral view) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Amphioplus acutus Mortensen (USNM E46862) ventral view) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (30 records) 
Unreviewed

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