WoRMS taxon details
Ophiosphalma variabile (Lütken & Mortensen, 1899)
1062561 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1062561)
accepted
Species
Ophiomusa variabile (Lütken & Mortensen, 1899) · unaccepted
Ophiomusium variabile Lütken & Mortensen, 1899 · unaccepted (transferred to Ophiosphalma)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Ophiomusium variabile Lütken & Mortensen, 1899) Lütken, C. F.; Mortensen, T. (1899). Reports on an exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, Central and Southern America and off the Galapagos Islands. XXV. The Ophiuridae. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 23(2): 97-208., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28891692 [details]
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiosphalma variabile (Lütken & Mortensen, 1899). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1062561 on 2025-04-06
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Ophiomusium variabile Lütken & Mortensen, 1899) Lütken, C. F.; Mortensen, T. (1899). Reports on an exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, Central and Southern America and off the Galapagos Islands. XXV. The Ophiuridae. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 23(2): 97-208., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28891692 [details]
new combination reference Hendler, G. (1996). Class Ophiuroidea. In: Blake, J.A., Scott, P.H., Lissner, A. (eds). <em>Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and the Western Santa Barbara Channel.</em> 14: 113-179.
page(s): 166 [details]
new combination reference Hendler, G. (1996). Class Ophiuroidea. In: Blake, J.A., Scott, P.H., Lissner, A. (eds). <em>Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and the Western Santa Barbara Channel.</em> 14: 113-179.
page(s): 166 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Baker, A. N. (2016). An illustrated catalogue of type specimens of the bathyal brittlestar genera <em>Ophiomusium</em> Lyman and <em>Ophiosphalma</em> H. L. Clark (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4097(1): 1-40., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.1
page(s): 37 [details]
page(s): 37 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Syntype (of Ophiomusium variabile Lütken & Mortensen, 1899) MCZ OPH-507 [details]
