Ophiuroidea name details
Amphiura cordifera (Bosc, 1802)
245510 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:245510)
unaccepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Asterias cordifera Bosc, 1802) Bosc, L.A.G. (1801). Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés Contenant leur Description et leurs Moeurs; avec Figures Dessinées, d'Après Nature. Tome second. Paris: Chez Deterville. 1–296, pls. 9–18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27817320 [details] 
Nomenclature This species name was originally attributed to Bosc by Lütken (1859), but when he realized (in: Lyman 1860) that his...
Nomenclature This species name was originally attributed to Bosc by Lütken (1859), but when he realized (in: Lyman 1860) that his species was different from Bosc's, the name Amphiura cordifera had to be attributed to Lütken instead. At the same time he changed it to A. riisei. [details]
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Amphiura cordifera (Bosc, 1802). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=245510 on 2025-09-11
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original description
(of Asterias cordifera Bosc, 1802) Bosc, L.A.G. (1801). Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés Contenant leur Description et leurs Moeurs; avec Figures Dessinées, d'Après Nature. Tome second. Paris: Chez Deterville. 1–296, pls. 9–18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27817320 [details]
basis of record Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details]
status source Lyman, T. (1860). Descriptions of new Ophiuridae, belonging to the Smithsonian Institution and to the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 1859-61.</em> 7, 193-204., available online at http://biostor.org/reference/61524
page(s): 258 [details]
basis of record Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details]
status source Lyman, T. (1860). Descriptions of new Ophiuridae, belonging to the Smithsonian Institution and to the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 1859-61.</em> 7, 193-204., available online at http://biostor.org/reference/61524
page(s): 258 [details]
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature This species name was originally attributed to Bosc by Lütken (1859), but when he realized (in: Lyman 1860) that his species was different from Bosc's, the name Amphiura cordifera had to be attributed to Lütken instead. At the same time he changed it to A. riisei. [details]