Genus Ophiothela Verrill, 1867

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• Ophiothela Verrill, A.E. 1867. Notes on the Radiata in the Museum of Yale College with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 1(2): 247-351 [269] [proposed with subgeneric rank in Ophiothrix Müller & Troschel, 1840].

  Type species:

   Ophiothrix (Ophiothela) mirabilis Verrill, 1867 by monotypy.
• Ophioteresis Bell, F.J. 1892. A contribution to the classification of ophiuroids, with descriptions of some new and little-known forms. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1892: 175–183 pls 11–12 [178-179].

  Type species:

   Ophioteresis elegans Bell, 1892 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. [U102]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), 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), Southwest Transition (7)

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