Ophiuroidea name details
Ophiacantha (Ophiectodia) Verrill, 1899
242549 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:242549)
unaccepted (none of the proposed species remains in this subgenus)
Subgenus
- Species Ophiacantha (Ophiectodia) pectinula Verrill, 1899 accepted as Ophiacantha echinulata Lyman, 1878 (synonymized by Koehler (1914))
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Verrill, A. E. (1899). Report on the Ophiuroidea collected by the Bahama expedition in 1893. <em>Bulletin from the Laboratories of Natural History of the State University of Iowa.</em> 5(1), 1-86. [details]
Taxonomy Verrill (1899) included O. enopla, O. rosea and O. spectabilis when he described this subgenus. he did not designate any of...
Taxonomy Verrill (1899) included O. enopla, O. rosea and O. spectabilis when he described this subgenus. he did not designate any of them as type. later he included O. pectinula. The subgenus is no longer considered valid. [details]
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2021). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiacantha (Ophiectodia) Verrill, 1899. Accessed at: http://marinespecies.org/Ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=242549 on 2024-04-19
original description
Verrill, A. E. (1899). Report on the Ophiuroidea collected by the Bahama expedition in 1893. <em>Bulletin from the Laboratories of Natural History of the State University of Iowa.</em> 5(1), 1-86. [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Verrill (1899) included O. enopla, O. rosea and O. spectabilis when he described this subgenus. he did not designate any of them as type. later he included O. pectinula. The subgenus is no longer considered valid. [details]