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Aspiduriella similis

Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Ophiuridae

Taxonomy
Aspidura similis was named by Eck (1865). It is not extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Aspidura (Hemiglypha) loricata by Pohlig (1878); it was recombined as Ophiomusium simile by Hess (1965) and Radwanski (2002); it was recombined as Aspiduriella similis by Salamon et al. (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Aspidura similis Eck p. 49 figs. pl. 1, fig. 5
1886Aspidura similis Benecke p. 198
1889Aspidura similis Boehm pp. 264-265
1926Aspidura similis Assmann p. 516
1937Aspidura similis Assmann p. 20
1940Aspidura similis Kutscher p. 14
1959Aspidura similis Heller p. 18
1965Ophiomusium simile Hess p. 159
2002Ophiomusium simile Radwanski p. 397
2012Aspiduriella similis Salamon et al. p. 4 figs. 2D-G

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
Asterozoa()
classOphiuroidea
RankNameAuthor
suborderMyophiurina()
infraclassMetophiuridaMatsumoto 1913
superorderEuryophiurida
orderOphiurida()
suborderOphiurina
familyOphiuridae
subfamilyOphiurinae
genusAspiduriella
speciessimilis()

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available