CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	25 185044 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Ophiotreta valenciennesi (Lyman, 1879)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.)
	CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC) Catalogue Number: MIIC-02111 CSIRO Specimen Reference: TAN0308-057-015 Survey: TAN0308 [details] Date of image: 2003-05-23 00:00 Position: -29.2178° S 159.007° E Depth: 300 metres Image by: Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) Rights: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Family:	25 185 Ophiotomidae (brittlestars) - show full list
Common Name:	[a brittlestar]
Organism Type:	a brittlestar
Synonyms:	Ophiacantha valenciennesi Ophiacantha bisquamata
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	25 185904 Ophiotreta spp.

Distribution map:
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Occurrence locations [7] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:d9d6fe81-bc83-47e4-b7e6-b50d2d7d13bb Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
MoV	4948
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:244220 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2020-02-03 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Record source:	O'Hara, T.D., Stöhr, S., 2006. Deep water Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) of New Caledonia: Ophiacanthidae and Hemieuryalidae., Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Paris, Vol. 193. Tropical Deep-sea Benthos, 24, (Richer de Forges, B. Justine, J.L.): 33-141.
Scientific Name verified against:	Mills, V.S., O'Hara, T.D., 2013. Ophiuroids (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) of biogenic habitats on the continental shelf of New Zealand., Zootaxa, Vol. 3613(5): 401-444.

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