CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	25 176908 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Ophiocten spp.
Rank:	Genus

CAAB category:	25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.)
Family:	25 176 Ophiuridae (brittlestars) - show full list
Common Name:	[a brittlestar]
Organism Type:	a brittlestar
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	25 176951 Ophiuridae
Child Codes:	25 176107 Ophiocten amitinum 25 176133 Ophiocten australis 25 176095 Ophiocten banzarei 25 176112 Ophiocten cryptum 25 176004 Ophiocten hastatum 25 176102 Ophiocten megaloplax 25 176068 Ophiocten sp. MoV 5674

Taxon Notes:

This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to this level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:c6692851-6fa8-4bec-9c1a-6d3feb17d682 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

Record source:	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
Scientific Name verified against:	O'Hara, T.D., Stöhr, S., Hugall, A.F., Thuy, B., Martynov, A., 2018. Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification., European Journal of Taxonomy, Vol. 416: 1-35. . doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.416 doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.416

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