Bohemura jahni Jaekel 1903 (brittle star)

Ophiuroidea - Oegophiurida - Protasteridae

Full reference: O.M.J. Jaekel. 1903. Asteriden und Ophiuriden aus dem Silur Böhmens. Zeitschrift der Deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft 55:106-113

Belongs to Bohemura according to W. K. Spencer 1934

See also Jaekel 1903, Owen 1965 and Schuchert 1915

Sister taxa: Protaster bicatenulata, Protaster groomi, Protaster piltonensis, Protaster salteri, Protaster sedgwickii, Protaster stellifer, Protaster ubaghsi, Bohemura granifer, Urosoma hirudo

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Bohemura jahni in the database

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