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Species name | Common name | Distribution | Max. Length (cm) |
---|---|---|---|
Ophiactis abyssicola (Sars, 1861) |
Eastern Atlantic and Southwest Pacific | ||
Ophiactis affinis Duncan, 1879 |
Western Pacific | ||
Ophiactis algicola Clark, 1933 |
Western Central Atlantic | ||
Ophiactis amator Koehler, 1922 |
Antarctic Indian Ocean | ||
Ophiactis asperula (Philippi, 1858) |
Shaggy brittle star | Southern Ocean | |
Ophiactis balli (Thompson, 1840) |
Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea | ||
Ophiactis definita Koehler, 1922 |
Western Central Pacific | ||
Ophiactis flexuosa Lyman, 1879 |
Southwest Pacific | ||
Ophiactis fuscolineata Clark, 1938 |
Northwest Pacific | ||
Ophiactis hemiteles Clark, 1915 |
Indo-West Pacific | 0.5 | |
Ophiactis hexacantha Clark, 1939 |
Western Pacific | ||
Ophiactis hirta Lyman, 1879 |
Southwest Pacific | ||
Ophiactis lymani Ljungman, 1871 |
Southwest Atlantic | ||
Ophiactis macrolepidota Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1887 |
Indo-Pacific and the Mediterranean Sea | ||
Ophiactis maculosa von Martens, 1870 |
Western Central Pacific | 0.2 | |
Ophiactis modesta Brock, 1888 |
0.3 | ||
Ophiactis nama Lyman, 1879 |
Southwest Pacific | ||
Ophiactis picteti (de Loriol, 1893) |
Indo-West Pacific | ||
Ophiactis plana unspecified |
Northwest Pacific and Western Central Atlantic | ||
Ophiactis profundi Lütken & Mortensen, 1899 |
Western Pacific | ||
Ophiactis quadrispina Clark, 1915 |
Western Pacific | ||
Ophiactis quinqueradia unspecified |
Five-armed ophiactis | Western Central Atlantic | |
Ophiactis resiliens Lyman, 1879 |
Indo-West Pacific | ||
Ophiactis savignyi (Müller & Troschel, 1842) |
Savigny's brittle star | Cosmopolitan | 2 |
Ophiactis simplex (Le Conte, 1851) |
Eastern Pacific and Western Central Atlantic | ||
Ophiactis tricolor Clark, 1928 |
Eastern Indian Ocean | ||
Ophiactis tyleri Stohr & Segonzac, 2005 |
Northeast Atlantic | ||
Ophiactis versicolor Clark, 1939 |
Western Central Pacific | ||
Ophiactis virens (Sars, 1857) |
Atlantic and the Mediterranean |