Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Asterozoa > Class Ophiuroidea > Subclass Myophiuroida > Infraclass Metophiurida > Superorder Ophintegrida > Order Amphilepidida > Suborder Ophionereidina > Superfamily Ophionereidoidea > Family Ophionereididae > Genus Ophiochiton

Ophiochiton ternispinus Lyman, 1883

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ophiochiton*	Lyman, 1878	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Ophiochiton grandis*	Verrill, 1884	synonym
*Ophiochiton tenuispinus*	Hoyle, 1884	synonym
*Ophiozona tjalfiana*	Mortensen, 1913	synonym; nom. inval.
*Ophiozonella tjalfiana*	(Mortensen, 1913)	synonym

Literature

original description	Lyman, T. (1883). Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Carribbean Sea (1878-79), and on the east coast of the United States, during the summer of 1880, by the U.S. coast survey steamer “Blake”, commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XX.- Report on the Ophiuroidea. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. 10(6), 227-287.
basis of record	BIOCEAN
additional source	Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance, C. G. Messing, F. A. Solis-Marin & C. L. Mah. (2009). Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico. Pp. 1177–1204 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College S.

Genbank

Citation

Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiochiton ternispinus Lyman, 1883. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:183312