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Ophiolepis elegans Lütken, 1859 
AphiaID: 243691

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Ophiolepidina (Infraorder) > Ophiolepididae (Family) > Ophiolepis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
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Rank Species
Parent Ophiolepis Müller & Troschel, 1840
Sources  original description: Lütken, C.F. 1859. Additamenta ad historiam Ophiuridarum. Anden Afdelning. Det kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskaps Skrifter. 5 Raekke, Naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk Afdelning, 5, 177-271, 5 pl. [details]

basis of record: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance, C. G. Messing, F. A. Solis-Marin, and C. L. Mah. 2009. Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1177–1204 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College S [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Caribbean Sea [details]
Colombia [details]
Cuba [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Honduras [details]
Jamaica [details]
Lesser Antilles [details]
Mexico [details]
Panama [details]
Puerto Rico [details]
Trinidad and Tobago [details]
Venezuela [details]

Links To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (34 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
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Ophiolepis elegans
Ophiolepis elegans
added on 2012-10-09 - author: UCSB, Univ. S. Carolina (NOAA–OE) ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:243691
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2007-07-18 12:17:12Z  created  Stöhr, Sabine
  
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  Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiolepis elegans Lütken, 1859. 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=243691 on 2013-05-20
  
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