Ophiuroidea taxon details

Ophiosphalma elegans (Koehler, 1897)

244059  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:244059)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Asterozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Ophiuroidea (Class)
  6. Myophiuroida (Subclass)
  7. Metophiurida (Infraclass)
  8. Euryophiurida (Superorder)
  9. Ophiurida (Order)
  10. Ophiomusina (Suborder)
  11. Ophiosphalmidae (Family)
  12. Ophiosphalma (Genus)
  13. Ophiosphalma elegans (Species)
accepted
Species
Ophiomusium elegans Koehler, 1897 · unaccepted (transferred to Ophiosphalma by...)  
transferred to Ophiosphalma by Guille & Vadon (1981)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Ophiomusium elegans Koehler, 1897) Koehler, R. (1897). Echinodermes recueillis par “l'Investigator” dans l'Ocean Indien. I. Les Ophiures de mer profonde. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles Zoologie, series 8.</em> 4, 277-372, pl. 5-9., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35663130 [details] 
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiosphalma elegans (Koehler, 1897). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=244059 on 2026-01-19
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2007-07-18 12:17:12Z
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Stöhr, Sabine

original description (of Ophiomusium elegans Koehler, 1897) Koehler, R. (1897). Echinodermes recueillis par “l'Investigator” dans l'Ocean Indien. I. Les Ophiures de mer profonde. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles Zoologie, series 8.</em> 4, 277-372, pl. 5-9., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35663130 [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 
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Ophiomusium elegans Koehler, 1897)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ophiosphalma elegans) 
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (6 records) (from synonym Ophiomusium elegans Koehler, 1897)

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