Ophiuroidea name details

Ophiacantha densispina Mortensen, 1936

243343  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:243343)

  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. Ophiacantha (Genus)
  13. Ophiacantha densispina (Species)
 unaccepted (transferred to Ophiosabine by O'Hara & Thuy (2022))
Species
Ophiacantha denuispina · unaccepted (lapsus calami, probably...)  
lapsus calami, probably densispina misspelled
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. Ophiacantha densispina Mortensen, 1936. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=243343 on 2026-01-25
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2007-07-18 12:17:12Z
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Stöhr, Sabine
2022-03-31 09:06:47Z
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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] 

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] 

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
page(s): 17 [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
To Barcode of Life (26 barcodes) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ophiacantha densispina) 
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 19 proteins) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ophiacantha densispina (1) E44298) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ophiacantha densispina E44298) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (2 records) 
Unreviewed

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