Genus Ophiolimna Verrill, 1899
Compiler and date details
2012 - Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
- Ophiolimna 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 [44].
Type species:
Ophiacantha bairdi Lyman, 1883 by original designation. Type species:
Toporkovia fragilis D'yakonov, 1954 by monotypy.
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 [64] (as Ophiolimna)
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
IMCRA
Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Macquarie Island Province (24), Northwest Transition (3), Southern Province (8)
Other Regions
Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)
General References
Fell, H.B. 1961. The fauna of the Ross Sea. Part 1 Ophiuroidea. Memoirs of the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute 18: 9-79, 8 figs, 19 pls [43] (as Toporkovia)
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 [101-102] (as Ophiolimna)
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 [52-53] (as Ophiolimna)
History of changes
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