Species under Ophiacantha
n= 36
Species name Common name Distribution Max. Length (cm)
Ophiacantha abyssa
Kyte, 1982
Northeast Pacific
Ophiacantha abyssicola
unspecified
Northwest Atlantic
Ophiacantha antarctica
Koehler, 1900
Southern Ocean
Ophiacantha bathybia
Clark, 1911
Northeast Pacific
Ophiacantha bidentata
unspecified
Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic
Ophiacantha clavigera
Koehler, 1907
Eastern Indian Ocean
Ophiacantha composita
Koehler, 1896
Western Central Pacific
Ophiacantha cornuta
Lyman, 1878
Western Pacific
Ophiacantha cosmica
Lyman, 1878
Southeast Pacific
Ophiacantha duplex
Koehler, 1897
Western Central Pacific
Ophiacantha frigida
Koehler, 1908
Southern Ocean
Ophiacantha funebris
(Koehler, 1930)
Western Central Pacific
Ophiacantha fuscina
O'Hara & Stöhr, 2006
Western Central Pacific
Ophiacantha gracilis
(Studer, 1882)
Western Pacific
Ophiacantha imago
Lyman, 1878
Antarctic Indian Ocean
Ophiacantha indica
Ljungman, 1867
Western Central Pacific
Ophiacantha levispina
Lyman, 1878
Western Central Pacific
Ophiacantha longidens
Lyman, 1874
Western Central Pacific
Ophiacantha nodosa
Lyman, 1878
Eastern Central Atlantic
Ophiacantha paramedea
Hertz, 1926
Antarctic Atlantic
Ophiacantha pentactis
Mortensen, 1936
Antarctic
Ophiacantha pentagona
Koehler, 1897
Western Central Pacific
Ophiacantha phragma
Ziesenhenne, 1940
Eastern Pacific and Western Central Atlantic
Ophiacantha placida
(Koehler, 1904)
Western Central Pacific
Ophiacantha renekoehleri
O'Hara & Stöhr, 2006
Western Central Pacific
Ophiacantha rhachophora
Clark, 1911
Northeast Pacific
Ophiacantha richeri
O'Hara & Stöhr, 2006
Western Central Pacific
Ophiacantha rosea
Lyman, 1879
Rose spiny brittle star Indo-West Pacific and the Antarctic
Ophiacantha scissionis
Lee, Stöhr, Bae & Shin, 2019
Northwest Pacific
Ophiacantha serrata
Lyman, 1878
Western Central Pacific
Ophiacantha setosa
(Bruzelius, 1805)
Atlantic and the Mediterranean
Ophiacantha trachybactra
(Clark, 1911)
Northeast Pacific
Ophiacantha vepratica
Lyman, 1878
Indo-Pacific and Northwest Atlantic
Ophiacantha vilis
Mortensen, 1924
Southwest Pacific
Ophiacantha vivipara
Ljungman, 1870
Brooding spiny brittle star Southern Pacific, Southwest Atlantic and Antarctic
Ophiacantha yaldwyni
Fell, 1958
Western Central Pacific
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