Genus Ophiomastix Müller & Troschel, 1842

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ophiomastix Müller, J. & Troschel, F.H. 1842. System der Asteriden. Braunschweig : Papier, Druck und Verlag 134 pp. 12 pls. [84, 107].

  Type species:

   Ophiura annulosa Lamarck, 1816 by monotypy.
• Acantharachna Smith, E.A. 1877. Description of Acantharachna mirabilis, a new form of Ophiuridae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology Zool. 13: 335-337 pl. 18 [335] [proposed with subgeneric rank in Ophiomastix Müller & Troschel, 1842].

  Type species:

   Ophiomastix (Acantharachna) mirabilis Smith, 1877 by monotypy.
• Ophiarthrum Peters, W.C.H. 1851. Übersicht der von ihm an der Küste von Mossambique eingesammelten Ophiuren, unter denen sich zwei neue Gattungen befinden. Bericht der Königlisch Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1851: 463-466 [463].

  Type species:

   Ophiarthrum elegans Peters, 1851 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [U96]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Northwest Transition (3), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

General References

Clark, H.L. 1921. The echinoderm fauna of Torres Strait. Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 10: 1-224, 38 pls [133-134] (as Ophiomastix)

Devaney, D.M. 1978. A review of the genus Ophiomastix (Ophiuroidea: Ophiocomidae). Micronesica 14(2): 273-359 figs 1-42 [274-280, 353-356] (as Ophiomastix)

History of changes