CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	25 192033 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Ophiothela mirabilis Verrill, 1867
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.)
Family:	25 192 Ophiotrichidae (brittlestars) - show full list
Common Name:	[a brittlestar]
Organism Type:	a brittlestar
Synonyms:	Ophiothela danae
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	25 192911 Ophiothela spp.

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

Taxon Notes:

Recently recorded from the western South Atlantic (Brazil) where it is regarded as invasive.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:f693d733-bc9d-48b0-b96d-d92cf4b2b35d Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
MoV	4649
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213399 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-01-11 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Record source:	Rowe, F.W.E. Gates, J., 1995, Zoological catalogue of Australia. Volume 33. Echinodermata. CSIRO, East Melbourne
Scientific Name verified against:	Alitto, R.A.S., Granadier, G., Christensen, A.B., O'Hara, T., Di Domenico, M., Borges, M., 2020. Unravelling the taxonomic identity of Ophiothela Verrill, 1867 (Ophiuroidea) along the Brazilian coast., Journal of the Marine Biology Association of the United Kingdom, Vol. 100: 413-426. . doi.org/10.1017/S002531542000034X doi:10.1017/S002531542000034X

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