Genus Ophionereis Lütken, 1859

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ophionereis Lütken, C.F. 1859. Additamenta ad historiam Ophiuridarum. 2. Beskrivelser af nye eller hidtil kun ufoldstaendigt kjendte Arter af Slangestjerner. Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes. Selskabs Skrifter. Kjøbenhavn 5(5): 179-271, pls 1-5 [110].

  Type species:

   Ophiura reticulata Say, 1825 by subsequent designation, see Lyman, T. 1865. Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae. Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 1: 1-200 pls 1-2.
• Ophiocrasis Clark, H.L. 1911. North Pacific ophiurans in the collection of the United States National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 75: 1-302, figs 1-144.

  Type species:

   Ophiocrasis dictydisca Clark, 1911 by original designation.
• Ophiodesmus Ziesenhenne, F.C. 1940. New ophiurans of the Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 8(2): 9-59.

  Type species:

   Ophiodesmus amphilogus Ziesenhenne, 1940 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Clark, A.M. 1953. A revision of the genus Ophionereis (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 123(1): 65-94 figs 1-12 pls 1-3

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Province (18), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), 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

Matsumoto, H. 1915. A new classification of the Ophiuroidea: with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 67(1): 43-92 [90] (as Ophiocrasis)

Matsumoto, H. 1917. A monograph of Japanese Ophiuroidea, arranged according to a new classification. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo 38(2): 1-408, figs 1-100, pls 1-7 [337] (as Ophiocrasis)

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