CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code:	25 176955 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Ophiopyrgidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category: 25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.) Family: 25 176 Ophiopyrgidae (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 176903     Amphiophiura spp. 25 176923     Aspidophiura spp. 25 176905     Dictenophiura spp. 25 176934     Euvondrea spp. 25 176926     Ophioperla spp. 25 176930     Ophiophyllum spp. 25 176914     Ophiopleura spp. 25 176915     Ophioplinthus spp. 25 176917     Ophiopyrgus spp. 25 176927     Ophiosparte spp. 25 176918     Ophiosteira spp. 25 176932     Ophiuroglypha spp. 25 176922     Stegophiura spp.

Taxon Notes:	This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to family level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.
Identifiers:	WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1062638 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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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