Ophiocopa spatula Lyman, 1883 
AphiaID: 243590

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Ophiacanthidae (Family) > Ophiocopa (Genus) > Ophiocopa spatula (Species)

Status		accepted
Rank		Species
Typetaxon of		Ophiocopa Lyman, 1883
Parent		Ophiocopa Lyman, 1883
Orig. name		Ophiocopa spatula Lyman, 1883
Synonymised names		Amphiactis parata (Koehler, 1904) (synonym) Ophiactis parata Koehler, 1904 Ophiocopa singularis Koehler, 1922
Sources		original description Lyman, T. 1883. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Carribbean Sea (1878-79), and on the east coast of the United States, during the summer of 1880, by the U.S. coast survey steamer “Blake”, commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XX.- Report on the Ophiuroidea. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, 10(6), 227-287. [details] basis of record Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] original description (of Ophiactis parata Koehler, 1904) Koehler, R. (1904). Ophiures de l'expédition du Siboga. Part 1. Ophiures de mer profonde. In: Weber, Siboga Expeditie. M. E.J. Brill, Leiden. 45a, 1-176. [details] original description (of Ophiocopa singularis Koehler, 1922) Koehler, R. 1922. Ophiurans of the Philippine Seas and adjacent waters. Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin, 100(5), 1-486., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.32917 [details] context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] [show all]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien
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Attributes		Functional group benthos » Stage adult (inherited from Ophiuroidea) [details] Supporting structure & enclosure Endoskeleton » Structure Solid » Composition Calcareous > High-magnesium calcite (inherited from Echinodermata) [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:243590
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2007-07-18 12:17:12Z   created   Stöhr, Sabine
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		Citation: Stöhr, S. (2007). Ophiocopa spatula Lyman, 1883. In: Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T. & Thuy, B. (Eds) (2017). World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed at http://www.marinespecies.org/Ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=243590 on 2017-09-25