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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Echinodermata (phylum) » Ophiuroidea (class) » Ophiurida (order) » Ophiomusaidae (family)
CAAB Code: | 25 176024 | ||||||||||
Scientific Name and Authority: | Ophiomusa anisacantha (H.L. Clark, 1928) | ||||||||||
CAAB category: | 25 - Echinodermata | ||||||||||
Family: | Ophiomusaidae (brittlestars) - show full list | ||||||||||
Common Name: | [a brittlestar] | ||||||||||
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Recent Synonyms: | Ophiomusium anisacanthum | ||||||||||
Organism Type: | a brittlestar | ||||||||||
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Current Australian list:
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Regions: |
Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) | ||||||||||
Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | ||||||||||
Record source: | Rowe, F. W. E. Gates, J., 1995, Zoological catalogue of Australia. Volume 33. Echinodermata. CSIRO, East Melbourne | ||||||||||
Scientific Name verified against: | O'Hara, T.D. Hugall, A.F. Thuy, B. Stöhr, S. Martynov, A.V., 2017. Restructuring higher taxonomy using broad-scale phylogenomics: The living Ophiuroidea., Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Vol. 107: 415-430. . doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.006 |
Record details
Record entered on 18-Jul-2000 00:00 by Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Record modified on 16-Oct-2017 08:16 by Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Modification description: correct spelling
Modification history:
06-MAR-2013: moved to different family (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)
(previous family sequence: 1)
10-AUG-2015: add MoV number (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)
20-JUN-2016: update reference (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)
16-OCT-2017: update genus (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)
(previous genus name: Ophiomusium)
(previous authority: H.L. Clark)
16-OCT-2017: correct spelling (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)
(previous species name: anisacanthum)
Record modified on 16-Oct-2017 08:16 by Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Modification description: correct spelling
Modification history:
06-MAR-2013: moved to different family (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)
(previous family sequence: 1)
10-AUG-2015: add MoV number (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)
20-JUN-2016: update reference (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)
16-OCT-2017: update genus (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)
(previous genus name: Ophiomusium)
(previous authority: H.L. Clark)
16-OCT-2017: correct spelling (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)
(previous species name: anisacanthum)