African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

WoRMS taxon details

Ophiochaeta Lütken, 1869

AphiaID

204559 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204559)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Ophiochaeta hirsuta Lütken, 1869 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Ophiopezidae O'Hara, Stöhr, Hugall, Thuy & Martynov, 2018

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Species Ophiochaeta hirsuta Lütken, 1869
Species Ophiochaeta boschmai A.H. Clark, 1964 accepted as Ophiochaeta hirsuta Lütken, 1869
Species Ophiochaeta crinita Cherbonnier & Guille, 1978 accepted as Ophiochaeta hirsuta Lütken, 1869 (synonymized by Price & Rowe (1996))
Species Ophiochaeta mixta Lyman, 1878 accepted as Ophiurochaeta mixta (Lyman, 1878)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Lütken, C. F. (1869). Additamenta ad historiam Ophiuridarum. Tredie Afdelning. Det kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter. 5 Raekke, Naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk Afdelning. 8: 20-109., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1096322 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiochaeta Lütken, 1869. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204559 on 2025-05-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2000-04-19 18:45:56Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-09-20 08:24:09Z

changed

Garcia, Maria

2006-09-26 06:56:50Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2007-07-12 13:29:01Z

checked

Stöhr, Sabine

2009-08-25 12:08:49Z

changed

Stöhr, Sabine

2018-03-21 15:03:48Z

changed

Stöhr, Sabine

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Lütken, C. F. (1869). Additamenta ad historiam Ophiuridarum. Tredie Afdelning. Det kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter. 5 Raekke, Naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk Afdelning. 8: 20-109., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1096322 [details]

basis of record Cherbonnier, G.; Guille, A. (1978). Echinodermes: Ophiurides. Faune de Madagascar, 48. Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS): Paris. ISBN 2-222-02341-6. 272 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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Taxonomy

taxonomy source O'Hara, T. D.; Stöhr, S.; Hugall, A. F.; Thuy, B.; Martynov, A. (2018). Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification. European Journal of Taxonomy. (416)., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.416
page(s): 15 [details]

Other

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Remark Type species: Ophiochaeta hirsuta Lütken, 1869 by monotypy (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Definitions

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