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Sloan, N. A.; Clark, A. M.; Taylor, J. D. (1979). The Echinoderms of Aldabra and their habitats. Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. 37 (2): 81- 128.
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Sloan, N. A.; Clark, A. M.; Taylor, J. D.
1979
The Echinoderms of Aldabra and their habitats
Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist.
37 (2): 81- 128
Publication
This first full account of the echinoderm fauna of Aldabra Atoll, western Indian Ocean, includes a description of the shallow-water habitats and two special ecological studies dealing with the microhabitats of the Ophiocomidae - the dominant family of coral-reef ophiuroids - and a comparison between the echinoderms of an exposed and sheltered part of the shore. The remainder consists of an annotated fauna list, with details of habitats, colours in life, parasites, commensals and other observations by Sloan, but also takes account of prevoius work by others at the Royal Society's base on the atoll. Nearly 130 species are included, of which 20% are recorded for the first time from the Islands of the western Indian Ocean (excluding the Mascarene Islands)
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 Description

Commensal with Macrophiothrix hirsuta in Kalk (1958). Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details]

 Description

Also distributed in Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South ... [details]

 Description

Also distributed in Bay of Bengal and north Australia (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, ... [details]

 Description

Colour in life: disc centre pink, some plates with large violet spots, the rest off-white, pimk below (Sloan, ... [details]

 Description

Colour in life: disc blood-red with radial shields the same colour, arms basically blood-red with a lighter pattern ... [details]

 Description

Has shorter arms than Ophiolepis cincta garretti, with a bolder and usually patterned colouration (Sloan et al., 1979). [details]

 Distribution

Also distributed in East Indies (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details]

 Distribution

Also distributed in Australia in Clark & Rowe (1971) and Rowe & Gates (1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, ... [details]

 Ecology

Ecology: benthic, continental shelf. General distribution: tropical, endemic in Australia, recorded depth 42 m. ... [details]

 Holotype

Holotype Australian Museum, Sydney (Australia) J6043, paratype Australian Museum, Sydney (Australia) J6379. Type ... [details]

 Holotype

Holotype in Nationall Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden (Netherlands). Type locality: Obi Latoe, Indonesia (Rowe & ... [details]

 Holotype

Holotype Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) No. 1627. Type locality: ... [details]

 Remark

Treated as valid in Rowe & Gates (1995) and in Achituv (1969). [details]

 Remark

Holotype (probable) whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: Hong Kong (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

 Remark

In Subgenus (Thymiosycia) Pearson, 1914. Status undetermined ?Stadtliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart ... [details]

 Synonymy

Day lists Hololepidella under citations for Polyeunoa nigropunctata, but Pettibone (1993) considers this finding as ... [details]

 Type locality

Aldabra. Holotype: Natural History Museum, London (England) 1978.9.1.1 [details]

 Type species

Ophiura echinata Lamarck, 1816 by subsequent designation, see Clark, H.L. (1915) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). In family ... [details]

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