Ophiuroidea taxon details
Perlophiura profundissima Belyaev & Litvinova, 1972
183343 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:183343)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Belyaev, G. M.; Litvinova, N. M. (1972). New genera and species of deep-sea ophiuroidea. <em>Bulleten Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelej Prirody. Otdel Biologicheskii.</em> 3: 5-20. [details] Available for editors 
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Perlophiura profundissima Belyaev & Litvinova, 1972. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=183343 on 2025-11-24
original description
Belyaev, G. M.; Litvinova, N. M. (1972). New genera and species of deep-sea ophiuroidea. <em>Bulleten Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelej Prirody. Otdel Biologicheskii.</em> 3: 5-20. [details] Available for editors 
context source (Deepsea) Smirnov I.S., Piepenburg D., Ahearn C., Juterzenka K.V. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Ophiuroidea. <i>Invertebrate Zoology</i>. Vol.11. No.1: 192–209 [in English]. [details] Available for editors
context source (CCZ) Christodoulou, M.; O'Hara, T. D.; Hugall, A. F.; Arbizu, P. M. (2019). Dark Ophiuroid Biodiversity in a Prospective Abyssal Mine Field. <em>Current Biology.</em> 29(22): 3909-3912.e3., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.012 [details] Available for editors
basis of record BIOCEAN, available online at http://www.ifremer.fr/biocean/ [details]
context source (Deepsea) Smirnov I.S., Piepenburg D., Ahearn C., Juterzenka K.V. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Ophiuroidea. <i>Invertebrate Zoology</i>. Vol.11. No.1: 192–209 [in English]. [details] Available for editors
context source (CCZ) Christodoulou, M.; O'Hara, T. D.; Hugall, A. F.; Arbizu, P. M. (2019). Dark Ophiuroid Biodiversity in a Prospective Abyssal Mine Field. <em>Current Biology.</em> 29(22): 3909-3912.e3., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.012 [details] Available for editors
basis of record BIOCEAN, available online at http://www.ifremer.fr/biocean/ [details]
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Perlophiura profundissima)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Perlophiura profundissima (1) 1080308)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Perlophiura profundissima 1080308)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (1 record)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Perlophiura profundissima)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Perlophiura profundissima (1) 1080308)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Perlophiura profundissima 1080308)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (1 record)