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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) »
Echinodermata (phylum)
» Ophiuroidea (class)
» Ophiurida (order)
» Ophiomusaidae (family)
CAAB Code :
25 176007
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Scientific Name and Authority :
Ophiomusa lymani
(Wyville-Thomson, 1873)
Rank : Species
CAAB category :
25 -
Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.)
Family :
25 176 Ophiomusaidae (brittlestars) - show full list
Common Name : [a brittlestar]
Organism Type : a brittlestar
Synonyms :
Ophiomusium lymani
Taxon lists :
Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat :
Marine unspecified
Parent Codes :
25 176912
Ophiomusa spp.
Distribution map :
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Identifiers :
MoV
1920
WoRMS
urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:245559
Name status: accepted
Checked on: 2020-02-09
View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS)
(report and map of occurrences )
Images :
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-01686
CSIRO Specimen Reference: IN2015_C01_041_103 Survey: IN2015_C01 [details ] Date: 07-November-2015 Position: -35.3774° 132.322° Depth: 1679.9 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-01687
CSIRO Specimen Reference: IN2015_C01_041_103 Survey: IN2015_C01 [details ] Date: 07-November-2015 Position: -35.3774° 132.322° Depth: 1679.9 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-01688
CSIRO Specimen Reference: IN2015_E02_021_009 Survey: IN2015_E02 [details ] Date: 11-April-2015 Position: -44.3224° 147.317° Depth: 2028 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-01689
CSIRO Specimen Reference: IN2015_E02_021_009 Survey: IN2015_E02 [details ] Date: 11-April-2015 Position: -44.3224° 147.317° Depth: 2028 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-01690
CSIRO Specimen Reference: IN2015_E02_021_009 Survey: IN2015_E02 [details ] Date: 11-April-2015 Position: -44.3224° 147.317° Depth: 2028 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-01691
CSIRO Specimen Reference: TAN0308-052-019 Survey: TAN0308 [details ] Date: 22-May-2003 Position: -29.2392° 159.035° Depth: 1395 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-01692
CSIRO Specimen Reference: TAN0308-071-049 Survey: TAN0308 [details ] Date: 25-May-2003 Position: -32.0663° 159.88° Depth: 1934 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-01693
CSIRO Specimen Reference: TAN0308-071-049 Survey: TAN0308 [details ] Date: 25-May-2003 Position: -32.0663° 159.88° Depth: 1934 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-01694
CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200510_071_042 Survey: SS200510 [details ] Date: 30-November-2005 Position: -31.9715° 115.1° Depth: 1050.2 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-01695
CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200510_071_042 Survey: SS200510 [details ] Date: 30-November-2005 Position: -31.9715° 115.1° Depth: 1050.2 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
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., Thuy, B., Stöhr, S., Martynov, A.V., 2017. Restructuring higher taxonomy using broad-scale phylogenomics: The living Ophiuroidea., Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution , Vol. 107: 415-430. . doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.006 doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.006