Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS) - Ophiomastus meridionalis (Lyman, 1879)

Ophiuroidea taxon details

Ophiomastus meridionalis (Lyman, 1879)

AphiaID

243736 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:243736)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Ophiomastus Lyman, 1878

Original name

Ophioglypha meridionalis Lyman, 1879

Synonymised names

Ophioglypha meridionalis Lyman, 1879 · unaccepted

Ophiomastus rotundus G.A. Smith, 1923 · unaccepted (synonymized by Mortensen (1936))

Ophiura meridionalis (Lyman, 1879) · unaccepted (transferred by Bernasconi &...)

transferred by Bernasconi & d'Agostino (1978)

Environment

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

Original description

(of Ophioglypha meridionalis Lyman, 1879) Lyman, T. (1879). Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae of the “Challenger” expedition. Part II. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 6(2): 17-83, 10 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31068674#page/27/mode/1up [details]

Taxonomic citation

Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiomastus meridionalis (Lyman, 1879). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=243736 on 2025-05-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2007-07-18 12:17:12Z

created

Stöhr, Sabine

2011-06-29 07:52:58Z

changed

Stöhr, Sabine

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Ophioglypha meridionalis Lyman, 1879) Lyman, T. (1879). Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae of the “Challenger” expedition. Part II. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 6(2): 17-83, 10 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31068674#page/27/mode/1up [details]

original description (of Ophiomastus rotundus G.A. Smith, 1923) Smith, G. A. (1923). Report on the echinoderms collected during the voyage of the “Quest”. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 9(12), 367-376, 3 figs. [details]

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

source of synonymy Bernasconi, I.; d'Agostino, M.M. 1978. Equinodermos Antarticos. III. Ofiuroideos. 3) Ofiuroideos de Sandwich del Sur y Georgias del Sur. Revista Museo Argentino De Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" e Intituto Nacional de Investigacion de las Cinecias Naturales. Hidrobiologia, 5(8), 201-218.
page(s): 211 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (21 barcodes)
To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes) (from synonym Ophiura meridionalis (Lyman, 1879))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Ophiura meridionalis (Lyman, 1879))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ophiomastus meridionalis)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Ophioglypha meridionalis Lyman, 1879)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Ophiura meridionalis (Lyman, 1879))
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ophiura meridionalis (1) E52823) (from synonym Ophiura meridionalis (Lyman, 1879))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (28 records) (from synonym Ophiura meridionalis (Lyman, 1879))

Unreviewed

To NMNH Extant Collection (Ophiura meridionalis (1) E52823)

Hosted externally, from synonym

To NMNH Extant Collection (Ophiura meridionalis E52823)

Hosted externally, from synonym