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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code:	25 192901 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Ophiothrix spp.
Rank:	Genus

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 Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 25 192000     Ophiotrichidae Child Codes: 25 192069     Ophiothrix accedens 25 192001     Ophiothrix aristulata 25 192047     Ophiothrix armata 25 192002     Ophiothrix caespitosa 25 192036     Ophiothrix ciliaris 25 192037     Ophiothrix crassispina 25 192074     Ophiothrix deceptor 25 192038     Ophiothrix dyscrita 25 192039     Ophiothrix elegans 25 192040     Ophiothrix exigua 25 192041     Ophiothrix foveolata 25 192048     Ophiothrix lepidus 25 192042     Ophiothrix liodisca 25 192044     Ophiothrix miles 25 192049     Ophiothrix picteti 25 192045     Ophiothrix plana 25 192050     Ophiothrix proteus 25 192051     Ophiothrix purpurea 25 192066     Ophiothrix pusilla 25 192071     Ophiothrix sp. MoV 5502 25 192070     Ophiothrix sp. MoV 5727 25 192046     Ophiothrix trilineata 25 192052     Ophiothrix vigelandi 25 192053     Ophiothrix viridialba 25 192072     Ophiothrix vitrea 99 250021     Ophiothrix sp. (like caespitosa) 99 250022     Ophiothrix sp. 1

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Taxon Notes:	This genus, as currently recognised, is polyphyletic, and is in urgent need of revision. 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:c6ea53d0-9fb7-4c81-a05e-e9f301b0bbe9 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:603257 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2018-03-13 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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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