CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	25 178000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Ophiocomidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.)
Family:	25 178 Ophiocomidae (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
Child Codes:	25 178909 Breviturma spp. 25 178904 Ophiocoma spp. 25 178905 Ophiocomella spp. 25 178907 Ophiomastix 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:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:7dd41f9c-86cd-44dd-8426-9299decadf71 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152490 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2022-06-23 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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 doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.003

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