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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) »
Echinodermata (phylum)
» Ophiuroidea (class)
» Ophiurida (order)
» Ophiactidae (family)
CAAB Code :
25 190002
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Scientific Name and Authority :
Ophiactis abyssicola (Sars, 1861)
CAAB category :
25 -
Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.)
Distribution map :
Family :
Ophiactidae (ophiuroids and brittlestars) - show full list
Common Name : [a brittlestar]
Recent Synonyms : Ophiactis abyssicola cuspidata
Taxon lists :
Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Regions :
Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) New Zealand (inc. subantarctic territories) South Pacific (Fiji etc.) Southern Ocean (non coastal)
Habitat :
Marine unspecified
Parent Codes :
25 190902
Ophiactis spp.
Organism Type : a brittlestar
Identifiers :
Australian Faunal Directory (AFD)
urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:5c9cb208-400a-44d9-a1ae-704de3968fc1
Name status: accepted
Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
Museum of Victoria
2535
World Register of Marine Species
urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125109
Name status: accepted
Checked on: 2019-01-11
View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS)
(report and map of occurrences )
Images :
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-02190
CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200702-009-046a Survey: SS200702 [details ] Date of image: 03-April-2007 00:04 Position: -44.1541° 147.128° Depth: 920 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-02193
CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200702-009-046d Survey: SS200702 [details ] Date of image: 03-April-2007 00:04 Position: -44.1541° 147.128° Depth: 920 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-02188
CSIRO Specimen Reference: TAN0308-005-004 Survey: TAN0308 [details ] Date of image: 11-May-2003 00:05 Position: -34.0623° 171.123° Depth: 1332 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-02189
CSIRO Specimen Reference: TAN0308-090-013 Survey: TAN0308 [details ] Date of image: 28-May-2003 00:05 Position: -34.2028° 163.356° Depth: 1117 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-02191
CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200702-009-046b Survey: SS200702 [details ] Date of image: 03-April-2007 00:04 Position: -44.1541° 147.128° Depth: 920 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-02192
CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200702-009-046c Survey: SS200702 [details ] Date of image: 03-April-2007 00:04 Position: -44.1541° 147.128° Depth: 920 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
Record source :
Rowe, F. W. E. Gates, J., 1995, Zoological catalogue of Australia. Volume 33. Echinodermata . CSIRO, East Melbourne
Scientific Name verified against :
WoRMS, WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species . . Available from http: www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.