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Ophiacantha bidentata (Bruzelius, 1805) 
AphiaID: 124978

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Ophiacanthidae (Family) > Ophiacantha (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Ophiacantha Müller & Troschel, 1842
Synonymised
taxa
  Asterias bidentata Bruzelius, 1805 (synonym)
Ophiacantha groenlandica Müller & Troschel, 1844 (synonym)
Ophiacantha hibernica Farran, 1913 (synonym)
Ophiacantha spinulosa Müller & Troschel, 1842 (synonym)
Ophiocoma arctica Müller & Troschel, 1842
Ophiocoma bidentata Müller & Troschel, 1842
Ophiocoma echinulata Forbes, 1852 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 336-351 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Gosner, 1977 [details]

additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details]

additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details]

additional source: BODC (2009). Species list from the British Oceanographic Data Centre. [details]

additional source: Stöhr, S., Boissin, E., Chenuil, A. (2009). Potential cryptic speciation in Mediterranean populations of Ophioderma (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Zootaxa 2071: 1-20. [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Bruzelius,N. 1805. Dissertatio sistens species cognitas asteriarum, quamr. sub praesidio A.J. Retzii. exhibet N. Bruzelius. , 1-37. Lundae (formerly know as Retzius, R.J.) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Müller, J.; Troschel, F.H. 1844. Beschreibung neuer Asteriden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 10(1), 178-185. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Farran, G.P. 1913. The deep-water Asteroidea, Ophiuroidea and Echinoidea of the West Coast of Ireland. Department of Agriculture and technical instruction for Ireland, fisheries branch, scientific investigations 1912, 6, 1-66. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Müller, J.H.; Troschel, F.H. 1842. System der Asteriden. , 1-134. Vieweg: Braunschweig [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Manicouagan [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
Saint Lawrence River [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (17 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (81 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), Saguenay Fjord, northern Gaspe waters, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle valley), downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary, Laurentian Channel (bathyl zone)(=Honguedo Strait); lower North Shore to Cape Cod [details]

Habitat: bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Nomenclature: The author used to be Retzius, but should be Bruzelius as argued in Stöhr et al. (2009). [details]
Images 
Ophiacantha bidentata
Ophiacantha bidentata
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Ophiacantha bidentata - preserved, aboral
Ophiacantha bidentata - preserved, aboral
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Ophiacantha bidentata - preserved, oral view
Ophiacantha bidentata - preserved, oral view
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Ophiacantha bidentata - oral view details
Ophiacantha bidentata - oral view details
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Ophiacantha bidentata - in vivo
Ophiacantha bidentata - in vivo
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Ophiacantha bidentata - fresh
Ophiacantha bidentata - fresh
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Ophiacantha bidentata -oral view
Ophiacantha bidentata -oral view
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Ophiacantha bidentata in nature
Ophiacantha bidentata in nature
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124978
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2007-07-18 12:17:12Z  checked  Stöhr, Sabine
2009-12-10 09:22:09Z  changed  Stöhr, Sabine
  
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  Citation: Stöhr, S.; Hansson, H. (2013). Ophiacantha bidentata (Bruzelius, 1805). In: Stöhr, S. & O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013) World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: Stöhr, S. & O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013) World Ophiuroidea database at http://www.marinespecies.org/ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=124978 on 2013-05-25
  
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