Nomenclature
original description
Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. <em>Published by the author and Deterville, Paris.</em> : viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719
note: Ophiura on subgeneric level is attributed to the same author as on genus level. [details] 
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Erroneously attributed to Lamarck, 1816 by McKnight (2003), p.23. [details]