Ophiomusaidae, O'Hara, Stohr, Hugall, Thuy & Martynov, 2018

Nethupul, Hasitha, Stöhr, Sabine & Zhang, Haibin, 2022, New species, redescriptions and new records of deep-sea brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the South China Sea, an integrated morphological and molecular approach, European Journal of Taxonomy 810 (1), pp. 1-95 : 77

Family Ophiomusaidae

A 568 bp sequence of the COI gene was obtained after removing ambiguous aligned sites and successfully used in reconstructing the ML tree for 13 specimens from the family Ophiomusaidae ( Fig. 45 ). Two main clades were detected within the family. Sub-Clade 01 represnts Ophiomusa scalare ( Lyman, 1878) , O. aspera ( Koehler, 1930) , O. simplex ( Lyman, 1878) and O. australe (H.L. Clark, 1928) . Sub-Clade 02 represents O. lymani , Ophiomusa sp. , O. miranda ( Koehler, 1930) , O. lunare ( Lyman, 1878) and O. anisacantha (H.L. Clark, 1928) ( Fig. 45 ). Genetic distance values are provided in Suppl. file 5.

Figures

Fig. 45. Family Ophiomusaidae O’Hara et al., 2018, Maximum likelihood (ML) tree based on partial COI sequences (bootstrap support values were generated with rapid bootstrapping algorithm for 1000 replicates). Abbreviations: NZ = New Zealand; SC = Sub-Clade; SCS = South China Sea.