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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]
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
Parent Codes:	25 178904 Ophiocoma spp.
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)

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

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