CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	25 179911 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Ophionereididae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.)
Family:	25 179 Ophionereididae (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 179000 Ophionereididae, Amphilimnidae
Child Codes:	25 179901 Ophiochiton spp. 25 179902 Ophiodoris spp. 25 179903 Ophionereis spp. 25 179904 Ophioplax 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:cd5c4ee8-6adf-4ed0-b3a7-ab6641cefc77 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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