Ophidiaster L. Agassiz 1836

Genus Ophidiaster L. Agassiz, 1836 Type species. Ophidiaster ophidianus (Lamarck, 1816) (type by monotypy). Remarks. The genus Ophidiaster is composed of 24 species, and six of them are recorded in the Atlantic Ocean: O. alexandri Verrill, 1915, O. bayeri Clark, 1948, O. bullisi (Downey, 1970), O. guildingi Gray, 1840, O. ophidianus (Lamarck, 1816) and O. reyssi Sibuet, 1977. Only O. alexandri and O. guildingi are recorded in Brazil until this date.
Published as part of Cunha, Rosana, Martins, Luciana, Menegola, Carla & Souto, Camilla, 2021, Taxonomy of the sea stars (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from Bahia State, including ontogenetic variation and an illustrated key to the Brazilian species, pp. 1-78 in Zootaxa 4955 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4955.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4691078
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