CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code:	25 176951 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Ophiuridae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category: 25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.) Family: 25 176 Ophiuridae (brittlestars) - show full list Common Name: brittlestars Organism Type: a brittlestar Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 25 176000     Ophiuridae, Ophiomusaidae, Ophiosphalmidae, Astrophiuridae, Ophiopyrgidae Child Codes: 25 176906     Haplophiura spp. 25 176933     Ophiambix spp. 25 176907     Ophiocrossota spp. 25 176908     Ophiocten spp. 25 176910     Ophiomastus spp. 25 176913     Ophionotus spp. 25 176902     Ophiura spp. 25 176924     Ophiuraster spp.

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Taxon Notes:

This family is currently restricted to the following genera - Ophiura s.s, Ophiocrossota, Ophiocten, Ophioctenella and Ophionotus. Several other genera previously included here are listed as family incertae cedis in O'Hara et al, 2018 - here we retain them in Ophiuridae pending more work to clarify their status. This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to family level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Identifiers:

AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:2b527432-2d26-4b86-aeee-744e1208775f Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123200 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-06-23 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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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