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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus Ljungman, 1867 
AphiaID: 204344

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEchinodermata (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAsterozoa (Subphylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiuroidea (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiurida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiurina (Suborder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAmphiuridae (Family)
Status accepted
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus aculeatus Ljungman, 1867
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAmphiuridae Ljungman, 1867
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAmphiocnida Verrill, 1899 (synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrotus (misspelling)
Sources  basis of record Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details]

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[sort alpha..]		 Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus aculeatus Ljungman, 1867
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus alboviridis (Brock, 1888)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus anomalus Liao, 1983
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus aspera (Koehler, 1905)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus crassuspinosus Cherbonnier & Guille, 1978
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus dilatata (Koehler, 1905)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus fragilis H.L. Clark, 1938
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus inaequalis (H.L. Clark, 1915)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus koehleri Gislén, 1926
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus novaezelandiae Gislén, 1926
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus pilosa (Lyman, 1879)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus polyacanthus Liao, 2004
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus putnami (Lyman, 1871)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus spinacutus Cherbonnier & Guille, 1978
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus tokiokai Irimura, 1981
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus verticillatus (Döderlein, 1896)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus vexator Koehler, 1922

Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus brachiatus (Montagu, 1804) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAcrocnida brachiata (Montagu, 1804)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus dilatatus (Koehler, 1905) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus dilatata (Koehler, 1905)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus inequalis (H.L. Clark, 1915) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus inaequalis (H.L. Clark, 1915)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus novae-zelandiae Gislén, 1926 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocentrus novaezelandiae Gislén, 1926
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Note 
From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorRemark Type species: Ophiocentrus aculeatus Ljungman, 1867 by monotypy (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Authority is Ljungman, 1866 in Cherbonnier & Guille (1978). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204344
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2000-04-19 18:45:56Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-10-01 17:04:30Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-09-26 06:56:50Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2007-07-12 13:29:01Z  checked  Stöhr, Sabine
  
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  Citation: Stöhr, S. (2014). Ophiocentrus Ljungman, 1867. In: Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T. & Thuy, B. (Eds) (2014) World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204344 on 2014-07-12
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