Ophiura violainae

Familia: Ophiuridae
Genus: Ophiura
Species:

Ophiura violainae (Cherbonnier & Sibuet, 1972)

• Original combination: Homalophiura violainae Cherbonnier & Sibuet, 1972
• Type locality: Bay of Biscay. 47°28′00″N 8°25′00″W / 47.466671°N 8.416670°W / 47.466671; -8.416670. Depth 2149 m.
• Holotype: MNHN-IE-2013-10189 [1].

• Homalophiura violainae Cherbonnier & Sibuet, 1972: 1378–1379, fig. 5.
• Ophiura (Ophiura) violainae (Cherbonnier & Sibuet, 1972) Paterson, 1985: 122, fig. 45; Smirnov et al., 2014: 206.
• Ophiura violainae (Cherbonnier & Sibuet, 1972); — Martynov & Litvinova, 2008: 80.

• Cherbonnier, G. & Sibuet, M. 1972. Résultats scientifiques de la campagne Noratlante : Astérides et Ophiurides. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 3ème série - Zoologie. 102(76): 1333–1394. BHL Reference page. 
• Martynov, A. & Litvinova, N.M. 2008. Deep-water Ophiuroidea of the northern Atlantic with descriptions of three new species and taxonomic remarks on certain genera and species. Marine Biology Research. 4: 76-111. DOI: 10.1080/17451000701840066 Reference page. 
• Paterson, G.L.J. 1985. The deep-sea Ophiuroidea of the north Atlantic Ocean. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 49(1): 1–162. BHL Reference page. 
• Smirnov, I.S., Piepenburg, D., Ahearn, C., Juterzenka, K.V. 2014. Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Ophiuroidea. Invertebrate Zoology. 11(1): 192–209. DOI: 10.15298/invertzool.11.1.18 Reference page.