CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

CAAB Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code:	25 178015 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Ophiocoma schoenleinii    Müller & Troschel, 1842
CAAB category:	25 - Echinodermata
Family:	Ophiocomidae (brittlestars) - show full list
Common Name:	[a brittlestar]
Recent Synonyms:	Ophiocoma schoenleini
Organism Type:	a brittlestar
Identifiers:	Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:e7d3c4c0-9ad2-406b-9732-896ba38f6129    Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia Museum of Victoria 4011 World Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212372    Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-10 View at WoRMS    - also at OBIS (report and map of occurrences)
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