Family OPHIACTIDAE
Compiler and date details
2012 - Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
2001 - Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
1995 - F.W.E. Rowe & J. Gates, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Introduction
The family Ophiactidae is cosmopolitan. It comprises five genera and 69 species.
Ophiactids are distinguished from other ophiurid families by the following combination of character states: arms slender, disc with granules or spinules; teeth broad, square-tipped, only a single papilla (or reduced tooth) if any, at the superficial end of the column of teeth, one or two (rarely three) distal oral papillae, usually well spaced from the apex of the jaw.
General References
Fell, H.B. 1960. Synoptic keys to the genera of Ophiuroidea. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 26: 1-44 6 figs
Paterson, G.L.J. 1985. The deep-sea Ophiuroidea of the North Atlantic Ocean. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 49(1): 1-162, figs 1-59
Spencer, W.K. & Wright, C.W. 1966. Asterozoans. pp. U4-U107 figs 1-89 in Moore, R.C. (ed.). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part U. Echinodermata. 3. Asterozoa-Echinozoa. Kansas : Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press Vol. 1.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 15-Sep-2023 | 22-Jul-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |