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Aplocoma agassizi

Ophiuroidea - Amphilepidida - Ophiolepididae

Taxonomy
Acroura agassiz was named by von Münster (1839).

It was corrected as Acroura agassizi by Boehm (1889) and Kutscher (1940); it was recombined as Aplocoma agassizi by Hess (1965), Hess (1985), Hess and Meyer (2008) and Thuy et al. (2012).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1833Ophiura prisca Goldfuss
1835Acroura prisca Agassiz
1850Acroura prisca d'Orbigny p. 177
1878Aspidura (Amphiglypha) prisca Pohlig p. 240
1879Aspidura prisca Eck p. 52
1886Ophiura prisca Benecke p. 199
1889Acroura agassizi Boehm p. 254
1889Acroura prisca Boehm p. 254
1940Acroura agassizi Kutscher p. 11
1940Acroura prisca Kutscher p. 12
1965Aplocoma agassizi Hess pp. 155-157 figs. figs. 4-7, pl. 13-15
1985Aplocoma agassizi Hess p. 9
2008Aplocoma agassizi Hess and Meyer p. 34
2012Aplocoma agassizi Thuy et al. p. 166 fig. 2,3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
Asterozoa()
classOphiuroidea
RankNameAuthor
suborderMyophiurina()
infraclassMetophiuridaMatsumoto 1913
superorderOphintegrida
orderAmphilepidida
suborderOphionereidina
superfamilyOphiolepidoidea
familyOphiolepididae()
genusAplocoma
speciesagassizi(von Münster 1839)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Aplocoma agassizi von Münster 1839
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Invalid names: Ophiura prisca Goldfuss 1833 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
H. Hess and C. A. Meyer 2008Five leaf-like oral papillae; teeth weak, conical; adoral shields widely in contact; ventral plates narrow; tentacle pores very large, tentacle scales broad; arm spines short, barely reaching length of arm fragment.