Ophiuroidea name details

Ophiotreta valenciennesi rufescens (Koehler, 1896)

244217 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:244217)

  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. Ophiotomidae (Family)
  12. Ophiotreta (Genus)
  13. Ophiotreta valenciennesi (Species)
  14. Ophiotreta valenciennesi rufescens (Subspecies)
 unaccepted
Ophiotreta rufescens (Koehler, 1896)
Subspecies
Ophiotreta valenciennesi (Lyman, 1879)
Ophiura rufescens · uncertain > nomen dubium (unclear origin, perhaps misprint...)  
unclear origin, perhaps misprint in Belloc (1950)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Ophiacantha rufescens Koehler, 1896) Koehler, R. (1896). Note preliminaire sur les Ophiures des premières campagnes de la “Princesse Alice”. <em>Memoirs Societe Zoologique de France.</em> 9, 241-253., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38554
page(s): 249 [details] 
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2026). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiotreta valenciennesi rufescens (Koehler, 1896). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=244217 on 2026-08-24
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2007-07-18 12:17:12Z
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Stöhr, Sabine
2007-07-19 13:01:56Z
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Stöhr, Sabine
2009-10-02 07:58:49Z
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Stöhr, Sabine
2011-11-11 10:15:17Z
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original description (of Ophiacantha rufescens Koehler, 1896) Koehler, R. (1896). Note preliminaire sur les Ophiures des premières campagnes de la “Princesse Alice”. <em>Memoirs Societe Zoologique de France.</em> 9, 241-253., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38554
page(s): 249 [details] 

basis of record Paterson, G.L.J. (1985). The deep-sea Ophiuroidea of the north Atlantic Ocean. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 49(1): 1-162., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2273511 [details] 

additional source Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] 

status source Stöhr, S. (2011). New records and new species of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from Lifou, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3089: 1-50., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt03089p050.pdf
page(s): 20 [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins) 

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