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CAAB Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code:	25 178030 show as JSON
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:	Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:cfa94c74-b972-4e6f-93b5-5af08f09b2a1    Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia Museum of Victoria 5529 World Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:382770    Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-12 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:	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