Synonymy

• Ophiactis pteropoma H.L. Clark, 1911

Synonymised by Koehler, 1922: 192

Primary references

• Lütken, C.F., & Mortensen, T. 1899. Reports on an exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, Central and Southern America and off the Galapagos Islands, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. fish comission steamer "Albatross", duing 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. XXV. The Ophiuridae. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 23(2): 97-208. BHL Reference page.  [original description of Ophiactis profundi p. 140–142 BHL]

Additional references

• Clark, H.L. 1918. Brittle stars, new and old. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 62(6): 263-338, 8 pl. BHL Reference page.  [see page 301]
• Koehler, J.B.F.R. 1922. Ophiurans of the Philippine Seas and adjacent waters. United States national museum bulletin. 100(5): 1-486. BHL Reference page.  [see page 192, source of synonymy]
• Mortensen, T. 1924. Papers from Dr Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition. XX. Echinoderms of New Zealand and the Auckland-Campbell Islands. II. Ophiuroidea. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn. 77: 91-177, pls 3, 4. BHL Reference page.  [see page 128]
• Nethupul, H., Stöhr, S. & Zhang, H-B. 2022. New species, redescriptions and new records of deep-sea brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the South China Sea, an integrated morphological and molecular approach. European Journal of Taxonomy. 810(1): 1–95. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.810.1723 Reference page.  [as Ophiactis profundi p. 68]