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CAAB Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Echinodermata (phylum)  »  Ophiuroidea (class)  »  Ophiurida (order)  »  Ophiocomidae (family)

CAAB Code:	25 178004 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Ophiomastix elegans    (Peters, 1851)
CAAB category:	25 - Echinodermata
Family:	Ophiocomidae (brittlestars) - show full list
Common Name:	[a brittlestar]
Recent Synonyms:	Ophiarthrum elegans
Organism Type:	a brittlestar
Identifiers:	Museum of Victoria 4008 World Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:836096    Name status: alternate representation    Checked on: 2019-01-11 View at WoRMS    - View potential occurrences at OBIS or Map
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Regions:	Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) South Pacific (Fiji etc.) Tropical Indo-Pacific (countries N/NE Australia) Indian Ocean (non coastal)
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. Cisternas, P.A. Boissin, E. Bribiesca-Contreras, G. Sellanes, J. Paulay, G. Byrne, M., 2018. Phylogenomics, life history and morphological evolution of ophiocomid brittlestars., Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Vol. 130: 67-80. . doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.003