Genus Ophiacantha Müller & Troschel, 1842

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ophiacantha Desjardins, J. in Müller, J. & Troschel, F.H. 1842. System der Asteriden. Braunschweig : Papier, Druck und Verlag 134 pp. 12 pls. [84, 106].

  Type species:

   Ophiacantha spinulosa Müller & Troschel, 1842 by subsequent designation, see Clark, H.L. 1915. Catalogue of recent ophiurans: based on the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 25(4): 165-376, pls 1-20.
• Ophioscalus Verrill, A.E. 1899. Report on the Ophiuroidea collected by the Bahama expedition in 1893. Bulletin from the Laboratories of Natural History of the State University of Iowa 5(1): 1-86, pls 1-8 [39, 42].

  Type species:

   Ophiacantha echinulata Lyman, 1878 by monotypy.
• Ophiodiplax Koehler, R. 1911. Astéries, Ophiures, et Echinides. Scientific Reports. British Antarctic Survey 2(Biol. 4): 25–66 pls 4–8 [48].

  Type species:

   Ophiodiplax disjuncta Koehler, 1911 by monotypy.
• Ophiomelina Koehler, R. 1922. Contributions to the biology of the Philippine Archipelago and adjacent regions. Ophiurans of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 100(5): 1-486, pls 1-103 [129-130].

  Type species:

   Ophiomitrella placida Koehler, 1904 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• O'Hara, T.D. & Stöhr, S. 2006. Deep water Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) of New Caledonia: Ophiacanthidae and Hemieuryalidae. Tropical Deep Sea Benthos 193: 33-141 [35-36] (as Ophiacantha)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Timor Province (2), Norfolk Island Province (21), Macquarie Island Province (24), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

General References

Lütken, C.F. & Mortensen, T. 1899. Reports on an exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and off the Galapagos Islands, in charge of Alexander Agassiz by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross, during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., comman. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 23(2): 93-208, pls 1-23 [165] (as Ophiacantha)

Verrill, A.E. 1899. Report on the Ophiuroidea collected by the Bahama expedition in 1893. Bulletin from the Laboratories of Natural History of the State University of Iowa 5(1): 1-86, pls 1-8 [36, 41] (as Ophiacantha)

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