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Ophiosmilax

Ophiuroidea - Ophiacanthida - Ophiobyrsidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1915Ophiosmilax Matsumoto p. 50
1966Ophiosmilax Spencer and Wright p. U90
2000Ophiosmilax Jagt p. 7
2004Ophiosmilax Storc p. 396
2008Ophiosmilax Storc and Zitt p. 124
2018Ophiosmilax O'Hara et al. p. 12

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
Asterozoa()
RankNameAuthor
classOphiuroidea
suborderMyophiurina()
infraclassMetophiuridaMatsumoto 1913
superorderOphintegrida
orderOphiacanthida
suborderOphiacanthina
familyOphiobyrsidae()
genusOphiosmilax

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.

G. Ophiosmilax Matsumoto 1915
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Ophiosmilax alternatus Kutscher and Jagt 2000
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Invalid names: Transspondylus bubnoffi Müller 1950 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
H. Matsumoto 1915Disk and arms covered by a thick skin. Radial shields very rudimentary and insignificant. Single oral papilla on either side and two or three dental papilla at the apex of each jaw. Teeth in a single vertical series. Teeth and papillae all alike, stout, stumpy, conspicuously thorny at tips. Second oral tentacle pores open outside oral slits, each provided with a thorny, stumpy papilla, which arises from adoral shield. Dorsal arm plates absent, while the lateral arm plates are subventral, so that the dorsal side of the arms is merely covered by a naked skin. Ventral arm plates welldeveloped, in contact with each other. Vertebrae short and very stout. Vertebral articulation streptospondyline, the articular peg being entirely ibsent. Arm spines few, converted into compound hooks. No tentacle scale.