CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Echinodermata (phylum) » Ophiuroidea (class) » Amphilepidida (order) » Ophiolepididae (family)

CAAB Code:	25 188901 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Ophiolepis spp.
Rank:	Genus

CAAB category:	25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.)
Family:	25 188 Ophiolepididae (brittlestars) - show full list
Common Name:	[a brittlestar]
Organism Type:	a brittlestar
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	25 188000 Ophiolepididae
Child Codes:	25 188001 Ophiolepis biscalata 25 188002 Ophiolepis cincta 25 188003 Ophiolepis irregularis 25 188004 Ophiolepis nodosa 25 188005 Ophiolepis rugosa 25 188006 Ophiolepis superba 25 188007 Ophiolepis unicolor
Previous Codes (if any):	25 176909

Taxon Notes:

This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to this level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:95af9f6e-fc38-4c05-8668-1c35116a24fe 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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