Family OPHIOTRICHIDAE
Compiler and date details
2012 - Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
2001 - Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
1995 - F.W.E. Rowe & J. Gates, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Introduction
The family Ophiotrichidae is widely distributed in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Sixteen genera are known with 169 species.
Ophiotrichids are distinguished from other families in the order Ophiurida by the following combination of character states: disc with thorny spines and/or spinelets; arms slender; arm spines thorny, usually slender, not adpressed; teeth stout, quadrangular, spiniform tooth papillae clustered at apex of each jaw; oral papillae absent.
General References
Clark, A.M. 1967. Notes on the family Ophiotrichidae (Ophiuroidea). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13 9(106–8): 637-656 fig. 1 pls 10-11
Fell, H.B. 1960. Synoptic keys to the genera of Ophiuroidea. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 26: 1-44 6 figs
Hoggett, A.K. 1991. The genus Macrophiothrix (Ophiuroidea: Ophiotrichidae) in Australian waters. Invertebrate Taxonomy 4: 1077-1146, 36 figs
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 15-Sep-2023 | 22-Jul-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |