Taxonavigation

Familia: Ophiacanthidae
Genus: Ophiolimna
Species (6 + †4): O. antarctica – O. bairdi – O. diastata – †O. kucerai – †O. lisae – †O. malagasica – O. opercularis – O. perfida – O. placentigera – †O. tiamatia

Name

• Ophiolimna Verrill, 1899
  • Type species: Ophiacantha bairdi Lyman, 1883, Type by original designation

References

• Belyaev, G.M. & Ivanov, B.G. 1961. On the bipolarity of ophiuroids ofthe genus Toporkovia Djakanov. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 40: 1258-1260, 1 map.
• Djakonov, A.M. 1954. Ophiuroids of the USSR Seas. Tabl. anal. Faune USSR (Israel Program for Scientific Translation 1967); Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moskva-Leningrad. 55: 1-136, 47 figs, 1 pl. Reference page.  [original description of Toporkovia]
• Fell, H.B. 1961. The fauna of the Ross Sea. Part 1. Ophiuroidea. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir. 18: 1-79, 19 pls. Internet Archive Reference page.  [as Toporkovia p. 43]
• Matsumoto, H. 1915. A new classification of the Ophiuroidea: with description of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 68: 43–92. BHL Reference page.  [see page 84]
• Matsumoto, H. 1917. A monograph of Japanese Ophiuroidea, arranged according to a new classification. The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo. 38: 1–408. BHL Reference page.  [see page 101]
• O’Hara, T.D., Stöhr, S., Hugall, A.F., Thuy, B. & Martynov, A. 2018. Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification. European Journal of Taxonomy 416: 1–35. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.416 Reference page.  [as Ophiolimna p. 14]
• Thuy, T. 2013. Temporary expansion to shelf depths rather than an onshore-offshore trend: the shallow-water rise and demise of the modern deep-sea brittle star family Ophiacanthidae (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). European Journal of Taxonomy 48: 1–242. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2013.48 Reference page.  [see page 65]
• Verrill, A.E. 1899. Report on the Ophiuroidea collected by the Bahama Expedition from the University of Iowa in 1893. Bulletin from the laboratories of natural history of the State University of Iowa. 5(1): 1-86; plates I-VIII. BHL. Reference page.  [as Ophiolimna p. 44 (original description)]