Two new species of brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea), living epizoic on a stalked crinoid

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Stöhr, Sabine (2025): Two new species of brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea), living epizoic on a stalked crinoid. European Journal of Taxonomy 1022: 176-201, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.1022.3087, URL: europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/3087/13763 Abstract. Brittle star species with epizoic life-style are found in at least a dozen families and on a wide variety of host animals (Cnidaria, Porifera, Mollusca, other Echinodermata).

An overview of epizoic brittle star species is provided. This study is the first account of brittle stars living epizoic on the crinoid Neogymnocrinus richeri. Two species were described as new to science, for one of them, a new genus, Warenophis gen. nov., was erected. “ Ophiomitrella ” thuyi sp. nov. is tentatively placed in the genus Ophiomitrella, because the genus is polyphyletic and its type species was here found not to concur with the generic characters.