CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	25 192000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Ophiotrichidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.)
Family:	25 192 Ophiotrichidae (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 192902 Gymnolophus spp. 25 192903 Lissophiothrix spp. 25 192904 Macrophiothrix spp. 25 192905 Ophiocnemis spp. 25 192906 Ophiogymna spp. 25 192907 Ophiomaza spp. 25 192908 Ophiophthirius spp. 25 192909 Ophiopsammium spp. 25 192910 Ophiopteron spp. 25 192911 Ophiothela spp. 25 192901 Ophiothrix spp.

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Occurrence locations [4] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

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:9f38603d-8b32-42e6-bc54-504d7372d207 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123208 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2022-06-23 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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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