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Ophiactis
Genus of brittle stars
Ophiactis is a genus of brittle stars (Ophiuroidea).
01Species
The following species are recognised by the World Register of Marine Species :
- Ophiactis abyssicola (M. Sars, 1861)
- Ophiactis affinis Duncan, 1879
- Ophiactis algicola H.L. Clark, 1933
- Ophiactis amator Koehler, 1922
- Ophiactis applegatei Martin-Medrano, Thuy & Garcia-Barrera, 2009 †
- Ophiactis asperula (Philippi, 1858)
- Ophiactis balli (W. Thompson, 1840)
- Ophiactis brachyaspis H.L. Clark, 1911
- Ophiactis brachygenys H.L. Clark, 1911
- Ophiactis brachyura Döderlein, 1898
- Ophiactis brasiliensis Manso, 1988
- Ophiactis brevis H.L. Clark, 1938
- Ophiactis canotia Lyman, 1879
- Ophiactis carnea Ljungman, 1867
- Ophiactis crosnieri Cherbonnier & Guille, 1978
- Ophiactis definita Koehler, 1922
- Ophiactis delagoa J.B. Balinsky, 1957
- Ophiactis dyscrita H.L. Clark, 1911
- Ophiactis flexuosa Lyman, 1879
- Ophiactis fuscolineata H.L. Clark, 1938
- Ophiactis gymnochora H.L. Clark, 1911
- Ophiactis hemiteles H.L. Clark, 1915
- Ophiactis hexacantha H.L. Clark, 1939
- Ophiactis hirta Lyman, 1879
- Ophiactis kroeyeri Lütken, 1856
- Ophiactis lethe A.H. Clark, 1949
- Ophiactis ljungmani Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1887
- Ophiactis loricata Lyman, 1869
- Ophiactis luetkeni Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1887
- Ophiactis luteomaculata H.L. Clark, 1915
- Ophiactis lymani Ljungman, 1872
- Ophiactis macrolepidota Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1887
- Ophiactis modesta Brock, 1888
- Ophiactis muelleri Lütken, 1856
- Ophiactis nama Lyman, 1879
- Ophiactis nidarosiensis Mortensen, 1920
- Ophiactis notabilis H.L. Clark, 1939
- Ophiactis perplexa Koehler, 1897
- Ophiactis picteti (de Loriol, 1893)
- Ophiactis plana Lyman, 1869
- Ophiactis profundi Lütken & Mortensen, 1899
- Ophiactis quadrispina H.L. Clark, 1915
- Ophiactis quinqueradia Ljungman, 1872
- Ophiactis resiliens Lyman, 1879
- Ophiactis rubropoda Singletary, 1973
- Ophiactis savignyi (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
- Ophiactis seminuda Mortensen, 1936
- Ophiactis simplex (LeConte, 1851)
- Ophiactis spinulifera H.L. Clark, 1939
- Ophiactis sulcata Kutscher & Jagt, 2000 †
- Ophiactis tricolor H.L. Clark, 1928
- Ophiactis tyleri Stöhr & Segonzac, 2005
- Ophiactis virens (M. Sars, 1857)
Sources and credits
This article is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Ophiactis”, written by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fathomly has changed the layout, removed citation markers, navigation and maintenance notices, and adjusted punctuation. This adapted version is shared under the same license. For references, see the original article.
Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Tiny in-a-sponge brittle stars (Ophiactis savignyi).jpg by Ria Tan from singapore, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Ophiactis resiliens, ventral disc.jpg by Photographer: Blair Patullo, CC BY 4.0
- Ophiactis savignyi.jpg by Gondim AI, Alonso C, Dias TLP, Manso CLC, Christoffersen ML (2013) A taxonomic guide to the brittlestars(Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) from the State of Paraíba continental shelf, Northeastern Brazil. ZooKeys 307: 45-96. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.307.4673, CC BY 4.0
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