Ophiacantha Muller & Troschel 1842
| Main Authors: | Numberger-Thuy, Lea D., Thuy, Ben |
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| Format: | info publication-taxonomictreatment Journal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2020
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/4397215 |
Daftar Isi:
- Genus Ophiacantha Müller & Troschel, 1842 Remarks. Ophiacantha is one of the most species-rich (Stöhr et al. 2012) and heterogeneous genera among the living ophiuroids (O’Hara & Stöhr 2006; Thuy 2013). Latest molecular evidence confirmed earlier suspicions that the genus, as currently defined, represents a polyphyletic amalgam of species (O’Hara et al. 2017, 2018) that should be subdivided into several genus-level clades. Previous studies already hinted at morphologically coherent species groups within Ophiacantha potentially representing such genus-level clades (O’Hara & Stöhr 2006; Thuy 2013). A revision of Ophiacantha and allied genera combining molecular and morphological evidence by far exceeds the scope of the present paper. We therefore preliminarily assign the species described herein to Ophiacantha, emphasizing, however, that it belongs to a separate species group than the type species O. bidentata.
- Published as part of Numberger-Thuy, Lea D. & Thuy, Ben, 2020, A new bathyal ophiacanthid brittle star (Ophiuroidea: Ophiacanthidae) with Caribbean affinities from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Mediterranean, pp. 19-30 in Zootaxa 4820 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4820.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4397238