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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Echinodermata (phylum) » Ophiuroidea (class) » Ophiurida (order) » Ophiocomidae (family)
CAAB Code: | 25 178030 | ||||||
Scientific Name and Authority: | Ophiocoma cynthiae Benavides-Serrato & O'Hara, 2008 | ||||||
CAAB category: | 25 - Echinodermata | ||||||
Family: | Ophiocomidae (brittlestars) - show full list | ||||||
Common Name: | [a brittlestar] | ||||||
Organism Type: | a brittlestar | ||||||
Identifiers: |
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Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
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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: | Benavides-Serrato, M. O'Hara, T.D., 2008. A new species in the Ophiocoma erinaceus complex from south-west Pacific Ocean (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Ophiocomidae)., Memoirs of Museum Victoria, Vol. 65: 51-56. | ||||||
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 |
Record details
Record entered on 5-Aug-2009 00:00 by Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Record modified on 30-Sep-2019 09:16 by Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Modification description: update distribution
Modification history:
28-JAN-2016: add MoV number (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)
30-SEP-2019: update distribution (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)
Record modified on 30-Sep-2019 09:16 by Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Modification description: update distribution
Modification history:
28-JAN-2016: add MoV number (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)
30-SEP-2019: update distribution (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)