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Ophioderma

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Ophioderma is the scientific name of two genera of organisms and may refer to:

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophioderma, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2276331	https://www.gbif.org/species/2276331
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	53825	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=53825

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Ophiuroidea : Ophiacanthida : Ophiodermatidae : Ophioderma

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Ophiuroidea : Ophiurida : Ophiodermatidae : Ophioderma

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ambulacraria
phylum	Echinodermata	Klein 1754
subphylum	Asterozoa	von Zittel 1895
class	Ophiuroidea	Gray 1840
order	Ophiurida
infraorder	Ophiodermatina	Smith et al. 1995
family	Ophiodermatidae	Ljungman 1867
genus	Ophioderma	Mueller & Troschel 1840

Scientific Name

Ophioderma Mueller & Troschel, 1840

Name Published In

Mueller & F. H. Troschel. 1840.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ophioderma	genus	belongs to Ophiureae	stated without evidence	Clark, 1904
Ophioderma	genus	belongs to Ophiodermatidae	stated without evidence	Clark and Twitchell, 1915
Ophioderma	genus	belongs to Ophiodermatinae	stated without evidence	Matsumoto, 1915
Ophioderma	genus	belongs to Ophiodermatidae	stated without evidence	Spencer and Wright, 1966

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (9.1%)

First Recorded Appearance

254 - 252 Ma
Permian

Environment

marine (based on Ophiuroidea)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Ophiodermatidae)

Vision

blind (based on Ophiuroidea)

Diet

carnivore, detritivore (based on Ophiodermatidae)

Reproduction

dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Echinodermata)

Ontogeny

accretion,addition of parts (based on Echinodermata)

Taphonomy

high Mg calcite (based on Ophiuroidea)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Müller and F.H. Troschel. 1840. Über die Gattungen der Ophiuren. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin 6:327-330

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophioderma

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ophioderma anitae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma appressa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma besnardi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma bonaudoae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma brevicauda species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma brevispina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma cinerea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma delsatei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma dentata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	190 Ma Early Jurassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic
Ophioderma devaneyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma divae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma elaps species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma ensifera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma guttata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma hauchecorni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Ophioderma holmesii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma januarii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma longicauda species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma pallida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma panamensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma pentacantha species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma peruana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma phoenia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma propinqua species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma qingchangensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Ophioderma radiatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Ophioderma rubicunda species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma rugensis ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Ophioderma saxatilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma sodipallarensi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma sodipallaresi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma spectabilis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	161 Ma Jurassic
Ophioderma squamosissima species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma squamosum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Ophioderma substriatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		16	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Ophioderma tenuibrachiata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	190 Ma Early Jurassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic
Ophioderma teres species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma tongana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma vansyoci species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma variegata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma wahlbergii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophioderma waliabadensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1840	Ophioderma Müller and Troschel
1904	Ophioderma Clark p. 433
1915	Ophioderma Clark and Twitchell p. 178
1915	Ophioderma Matsumoto p. 87
1966	Ophioderma Spencer and Wright p. U97
1975	Ophioderma Hess
2000	Ophioderma Jagt p. 27
2008	Ophioderma Storc and Zitt p. 131

References

Müller J., Troschel F.H. Über die Gattungen der Ophiuren, Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin 6, 327-330

Clark W. B., Twitchell M. W. (1915) The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States, United States Geological Survey Bulletin 54, 1-341

Matsumoto H. (1915) A new classification of Ophiuroidea: with description of genera and species, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 67, 43-92

Spencer W. K., Wright C.W. (1966) Asterozoans, Moore R.C. ed, Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, Echinodermata, University of Kansas Press and the Geological Society of America 3 1, U4-U107

Hess H (1975) Mikropaläontologische Untersuchungen an Ophiuren. VII. Die Ophiuren aus den Humeralis-Schichten (Ober-Oxford) von Raedersdorf (Haut-Rhin), Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 68 3, 603-612

Jagt J. W. M. (2000) Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 3: Ophiuroids, Scripta Geologica 21, 1-179

Storc R., Zitt J. (2008) Late Turonian ophiuroids (Echinodermata) from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic, Bulletin of Geosciences 83 2, 123-140

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Arch. Naturgesch., 6 (1) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Fell, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Fell, 1982, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Spencer, W. K., and C. W. Wright / Durham, J. Wyatt, et al. / Moore, Raymond C., ed., 1966: Asterozoans. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part U, Echinodermata 3, vol. 1. U4-U107. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Müller, J. & Troschel, F.H. (1840). Über die Gattungen der Ophiuren. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 6(1): 326-330. - via World Register of Marine Species

Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,. 50: pp. 336-351. - via World Register of Marine Species

Ljungman, A. (1867). Ophiuroidea viventia huc usque cognita enumerat. Öfversigt af Kgl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 1866. 23(9): 303-336. - via World Register of Marine Species

Melville, R. V. (1980). Opinion 1152. Ophiura Lamarck, 1801 and Ophioderma Müller & Troschel, 1840 (Ophiuroidea): ruling on application of these names. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 37(2): 78-80. - via World Register of Marine Species

Brusca, Richard C., and Gary J. Brusca, 2002: null. Invertebrates, Second Edition. xx + 936. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Stöhr, S.; Boissin, E.; Chenuil, A. (2009). Potential cryptic speciation in Mediterranean populations of Ophioderma (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Zootaxa. 2071: 1-20. - via World Register of Marine Species

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 1152 Ophiura Lamarck, 1801 and Ophioderma M?ller & Troschel, 1840 (Ophiuroidea): ruling on application of these names.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 37, 78-80 (1980) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

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