Marine Species Traits - Ophiurothamnus laevis (Lütken & Mortensen, 1899)

Deep-Sea taxon details

Ophiurothamnus laevis (Lütken & Mortensen, 1899)

AphiaID

244348 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:244348)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Ophiurothamnus Matsumoto, 1917

Original name

Ophiothamnus laevis Lütken & Mortensen, 1899

Synonymised names

Ophiothamnus laevis Lütken & Mortensen, 1899 · unaccepted

Environment

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

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiurothamnus laevis (Lütken & Mortensen, 1899). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=244348 on 2025-06-04

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Ophiurothamnus laevis (Lütken & Mortensen, 1899). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=244348 on 2025-06-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2007-07-18 12:17:12Z

created

Stöhr, Sabine

[taxonomic tree]

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 Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (Holotype USNM 19586) (from synonym Ophiothamnus laevis Lütken & Mortensen, 1899)