DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17515209
title: Table 1 in Two new species of brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea), living epizoic on a stalked crinoid

description: Table 1 (continued on next three pages). Non-exhaustive list of epizoic and endozoic species of Ophiuroidea Gray, 1840 and their host species. Compiled from the cited literature sources and museum collection specimens.
FamilyOphiuroidHostSourceCnidaria hostsAsteronychidae Ljungman, 1867Asteronyx loveni Müller & Troschel, 1842Pennatuloidea, OctocoralliaBuhl-Mortensen & Buhl-Mortensen 2004Gorgonocephalidae Ljungman, 1867Gorgonocephalus caputmedusae (Linnaeus, 1758)Various corals, Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758)Buhl-Mortensen & Buhl-Mortensen 2004Gorgonocephalus eucnemis (Müller & Troschel, 1842)Gersemia v. Marenzeller, 1878, Eunephthya Verrill, 1869Mortensen 1927; Patent 1970; Buhl-Mortensen & Buhl-Mortensen 2004Gorgonocephalus lamarcki (Müller & Troschel, 1842)Various corals, Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758)Buhl-Mortensen & Buhl-Mortensen 2004Astrogordius cacaoticus (Lyman, 1874)Antipathes Pallas, 1766, Ellisella barbadensis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)Buhl-Mortensen & Buhl-Mortensen 2004Astrothorax waitei (Benham, 1909)CoralsPersonal observation on museum specimenAsteroporpa annulata Örstedt & Lütken in Lütken, 1856Various coralsBuhl-Mortensen & Buhl-Mortensen 2004Asteroporpa indicus (Baker, 1980)CoralPersonal observation on museum specimenAstrothrombus rugosus H.L. Clark, 1909CoralPersonal observation on museum specimenEuryalidae Gray, 1840Asteromorpha tenax Baker, 1980CoralPersonal observation on museum specimenAsteroschema ajax A.H. Clark, 1949Pseudochrysogorgia bellona Pante & France, 2010Cook et al. 2023Asteroschema clavigerum Verrill, 1899Paramuricea biscaya Grasshoff, 1977Girard et al. 2016Asteroschema tenue Lyman, 1875CoralsBuhl-Mortensen & Buhl-Mortensen 2004Asteroschema tubiferum Matsumoto, 1911CoralPersonal observation on museum specimenAsteroschema tumidum Lyman, 1879CoralPersonal observation on museum specimenAstroceras elegans (Bell, 1917)CoralPersonal observation on museum specimenEuryalidae Gray, 1840Ophiocreas oedipus Lyman, 1879Metallogorgia melanotrichos (Wright & Studer, 1899)Mosher & Watling 2009Ophiocreas sibogae Koehler, 1904CoralPersonal observation on museum specimenAstrobrachion constrictum (Farquhar, 1900)Antipathella fiordensis (Grange, 1990)Grange 1991Ophiomusaidae O’Hara, Stöhr, Hugall, Thuy & Martynov, 2018Ophiomusa lymani (Wyville Thomson, 1873)Acanella arbuscula (Johnson, 1862), gorgoniansBuhl-Mortensen & Buhl-Mortensen 2004Ophiacanthidae Ljungman, 1867Ophiocanops felli McKnight, 2003Antipathes Pallas, 1766McKnight 2003Ophiocanops multispina Stöhr, Conand & Boissin, 2008Antipathes Pallas, 1766Stöhr et al. 2008Ophioplinthaca citata Koehler, 1904PrimnoidaeO’Hara & Stöhr 2006Ophiomoeris obstricta (Lyman, 1878)Soft corals, spongesO’Hara & Stöhr 2006Ophiosemnotes clavigera (Ljungman, 1865)Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758), Paramuricea placomus (Linnaeus, 1758)Buhl-Mortensen & Buhl-Mortensen 2004Ophiacantha abyssicola G.O. Sars, 1872Various corals, Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758)Buhl-Mortensen & Buhl-Mortensen 2004Ophiosabine anomala (G.O. Sars, 1872)Various corals, Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758)Buhl-Mortensen & Buhl-Mortensen 2004Ophiacantha bidentata (Bruzelius, 1805)Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758)Allen Brooks et al. 2007Ophiacantha setosa (Bruzelius, 1805)CoralsTortonese 1965Ophiomitrella mensa O’Hara & Stöhr, 2006CnidariaO’Hara & Stöhr 2006Ophiotomidae Paterson, 1985Ophiotreta valenciennesi (Lyman, 1879)Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758)Stöhr & Segonzac 2005Hemieuryalidae Verrill, 1899Astrogymnotes irimurai Baker, Clark & McKnight, 2001Antipathes Pallas, 1766Baker et al. 2001; Buhl-Mortensen & Buhl-Mortensen 2004Hemieuryale pustulata v. Martens, 1867Nicella guadalupensis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860)Gondim et al. 2015Sigsbeia murrhina Lyman, 1878Stylaster filogranus Pourtalés, 1871Lyman 1878Sigsbeia laevis Ziesenhenne, 1940“red coral”Ziesenhenne 1940Ophiotrichidae Ljungman, 1867Macrophiothrix melanosticta (Grube, 1868)PennatuloideaHoggett 1990Ophiothela danae Verrill, 1869gorgoniansFatemi & Stöhr 2019Ophiothela venusta (de Loriol, 1900)Suberogorgia suberosa (Pallas, 1766)Fatemi & Stöhr 2019Ophiothrix savignyi (Müller & Troschel, 1842)Suberogorgia suberosa (Pallas, 1766)Fatemi & Stöhr 2019Ophiocnemis marmorata (Lamark, 1816)rhizostome jellyfishFujita & Namikawa 2006Echinodermata hostsGorgonocephalidae Ljungman, 1867Astrothorax waitei (Benham, 1909)CrinoideaT. O’Hara, observation on museum specimenAmphiuridae Ljungman, 1867Amphipholis linopneusti Stöhr, 2001Linopneustes murrayi (A. Agassiz, 1879)Stöhr 2001Amphipholis conolampadis Kroh & Thuy, 2013Conolampas diomedeae Mortensen, 1948Kroh & Thuy 2013Ophiodaphne formata (Koehler, 1905)Astriclypeus manni Verrill, 1867Tominaga et al. 2004Ophiodaphne spinosa Tominaga, Hirose, Igarashi, Kiyomoto & Komatsu, 2017Clypeaster japonicus Döderlein, 1885Tominaga et al. 2017Nannophiura lagani Mortensen, 1933Laganum depressum L. Agassiz, 1841Mortensen 1933Ophiotrichidae Ljungman, 1867Ophiomaza cacaotica Lyman, 1871Crinoidea, ComatulidaPotts 1915; Mekhova & Britayev 2015Gymnolophus obscura Ljungman, 1867CrinoideaPotts 1915Ophiolophus novarae Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1887Comanthus bennetti (J. Müller, 1841)Guille et al. 1986Ophiophthirius actinometrae Döderlein, 1898Actinometra solaris (Lamarck, 1816)Döderlein 1898Macrophiothrix melanosticta (Grube, 1868)CrinoideaHoggett 1990Ophiacanthidae Ljungman, 1867Ophiacantha pentacrinus Lütken, 1869Endoxocrinus (Endoxocrinus) parrae parrae (Gervais in Guérin, 1835)Lütken 1869Ophiolebes comatulina McKnight, 2003ComatulidaMcKnight 2003Ophiolebes paulensis O’Hara & Thuy, 2022CrinoideaO’Hara & Thuy 2022Ophiacanthidae Ljungman, 1867Ophiomitrella floorae Thuy, Numberger-Thuy & Jagt, 2020 (fossil)CrinoideaThuy et al. 2020“ Ophiomitrella ” thuyi sp. nov.Neogymnocrinus richeri (Bourseau, AmézianeCominardi & Roux, 1987)Present studyOphiacanthida incertae sedisWarenophis andersi gen. et sp. nov.Neogymnocrinus richeri (Bourseau, AmézianeCominardi & Roux, 1987)Present studyPorifera hostsOphiactidae Matsumoto, 1915Ophiactis savignyi (Müller & Troschel, 1842)PoriferaHendler et al. 1995; Fatemi & Stöhr 2019Ophiactis algicola H.L. Clark, 1933Porifera, BryozoaHendler et al. 1995Ophiactis quinqueradia Ljungman, 1872PoriferaHendler et al. 1995Ophiactis modesta Brock, 1888PoriferaPeyghan et al. 2018Ophiotrichidae Ljungman, 1867Ophiothrix angulata (Say, 1825)PoriferaHendler et al. 1995Ophiothrix suensonii Lütken, 1856PoriferaHendler et al. 1995Ophiothrix lineata Lyman, 1860PoriferaHendler et al. 1995Ophiothrix oerstedii Lütken, 1856PoriferaHendler et al. 1995Mollusca hostsAmphilepidida O’Hara, Hugall, Thuy, Stöhr & Martynov, 2017Ophienigma spinilimbatum Stöhr & Segonzac, 2005Bathymodiolus Kenk & B.R. Wilson, 1985Stöhr & Segonzac 2005Ophiuridae Müller & Troschel, 1840Ophioctenella acies Tyler, Paterson, Sibuet, Guille, Murton & Segonzac, 1995Bathymodiolus Kenk & B.R. Wilson, 1985Tyler et al. 1995
description: Published as part of Stöhr, Sabine, 2025, Two new species of brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea), living epizoic on a stalked crinoid, pp. 177-180 in European Journal of Taxonomy 1022 on page 177, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.1022.3087, http://zenodo.org/record/17515162