Ophiosternle

Familia: Ophiacanthidae
Genus: †
Species: †O. crinitum

Ophiosternle Thuy & Schulz, 2012

Type species: Ophiurites crinitus Quenstedt, 1876 (type by monotypy)

Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, snake) and from the Swabian diminutive of German stern, star, in reference to Swabia in south Germany, where the type material of the taxon was discovered.

• Thuy, B., Schulz, H. 2012. The oldest representative of a modern deep-sea ophiacanthid brittle-star clade from Jurassic shallow-water coral reef sediments. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 58(3): 525-531. DOI: 10.4202/app.2011.0192 Reference page.  [original description]

• Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2020). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiosternle Thuy & Schulz, 2012 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=745129 on 2020-08-02

• BHL bibliography
• Ophiosternle – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Ophiosternle.
• ION

For more multimedia, look at Ophiosternle on Wikimedia Commons.