Ophiuroidea taxon details
Ophioplinthus inermis (Bell, 1902)
1830469 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1830469)
accepted
Species
Ophiozona inermis Bell, 1902 · unaccepted (transferred to Ophioplinthus by...)
transferred to Ophioplinthus by Sands et al. (2025)
marine
(of Ophiozona inermis Bell, 1902) Bell, F. J. (1902). Reports on the collections of Natural History made in the Antarctic regions during the voyage of the “Southern Cross”. VIII. Echinoderma. 214-220, 2 pl. [details]
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophioplinthus inermis (Bell, 1902). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1830469 on 2026-08-25
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(of Ophiozona inermis Bell, 1902) Bell, F. J. (1902). Reports on the collections of Natural History made in the Antarctic regions during the voyage of the “Southern Cross”. VIII. Echinoderma. 214-220, 2 pl. [details]
basis of record Sands, C. J.; O'Hara, T. D.; Guzzi, A.; Goodall-Copestake, W. P.; Convey, P.; Narayanaswamy, B. E.; Martín-Ledo, R.; Stöhr, S. (2025). And then there were many: insights from the tangled taxonomy of the Antarctic brittle star Ophioplinthus gelida (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). <em>Frontiers in Marine Science.</em> 12., available online at https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1615695
page(s): 18 [details]
basis of record Sands, C. J.; O'Hara, T. D.; Guzzi, A.; Goodall-Copestake, W. P.; Convey, P.; Narayanaswamy, B. E.; Martín-Ledo, R.; Stöhr, S. (2025). And then there were many: insights from the tangled taxonomy of the Antarctic brittle star Ophioplinthus gelida (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). <em>Frontiers in Marine Science.</em> 12., available online at https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1615695
page(s): 18 [details]
Syntype (of Ophiozona inermis Bell, 1902) MCZ OPH-332 [details]
