RAMS taxon details

Ophiocten megaloplax Koehler, 1900

173530 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:173530)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Asterozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Ophiuroidea (Class)
  6. Myophiuroida (Subclass)
  7. Metophiurida (Infraclass)
  8. Euryophiurida (Superorder)
  9. Ophiurida (Order)
  10. Ophiurina (Suborder)
  11. Ophiuridae (Family)
  12. Ophiurinae (Subfamily)
  13. Ophiocten (Genus)
  14. Ophiocten megaloplax (Species)
accepted
Species
Ophiocten Lütken, 1855
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Koehler, R. (1900). Note preliminaire sur les Echinides et les Ophiures de l'Expédition Antarctique Belge. <em>Bulletin Academie Royale Belgique.</em> 11(3), 814-820. [details] OpenAccess publication
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiocten megaloplax Koehler, 1900. Accessed through: De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2025) Register of Antarctic Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/rams/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=173530 on 2026-08-08
De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2026). Register of Antarctic Marine Species. Ophiocten megaloplax Koehler, 1900. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/rAMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=173530 on 2026-08-08
Date
action
by
2005-07-13 10:16:18Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-07-18 12:17:12Z
checked
Stöhr, Sabine

original description Koehler, R. (1900). Note preliminaire sur les Echinides et les Ophiures de l'Expédition Antarctique Belge. <em>Bulletin Academie Royale Belgique.</em> 11(3), 814-820. [details] OpenAccess publication

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

basis of record Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
    Definitions

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To Barcode of Life (121 barcodes) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ophiocten megaloplax) 
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 13 proteins) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ophiocten megalopax Koehler, 1900 (USNM 07961) arm, dorsal view) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ophiocten megalopax Koehler, 1900 (USNM 07961) ventral view) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (22 records) 
Unreviewed