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Ophiocoma insularia Lyman, 1861

212383  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212383)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Asterozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Ophiuroidea (Class)
  6. Myophiuroidea (Subclass)
  7. Metophiurida (Infraclass)
  8. Ophintegrida (Superorder)
  9. Ophiacanthida (Order)
  10. Ophiodermatina (Suborder)
  11. Ophiocomoidea (Superfamily)
  12. Ophiocomidae (Family)
  13. Ophiocoma (Genus)
  14. Ophiocoma insularia (Species)
 unaccepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Lyman, T. (1861). Descriptions of new Ophiuridae. Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist. 8, 75-86. [details]   
Description Colour in life:aboral side of the disc and basal part of the arms uniform brown. Distal part of the arms lighter brown with...  
Description Colour in life:aboral side of the disc and basal part of the arms uniform brown. Distal part of the arms lighter brown with dark cross-bands. Oral side of the disc yellowish-brown. Many specimens with dark brown, round spots, with light edges (Balinsky, 1957).
Tropical Indo-Pacific, also in Australia in Kalk (1958). [details]
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T. & Thuy, B. (Eds) (2018). World Ophiuroidea database. Ophiocoma insularia Lyman, 1861. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/Ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212383 on 2018-06-22
Date
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1999-06-28 19:20:39Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-20 08:24:09Z
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Garcia, Maria
2007-08-27 13:50:37Z
checked
Stöhr, Sabine
2012-07-12 14:13:12Z
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Stöhr, Sabine
2017-06-22 14:53:56Z
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Stöhr, Sabine

original description Lyman, T. (1861). Descriptions of new Ophiuridae. Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist. 8, 75-86. [details]   

source of synonymy Devaney, D.M. (1970). Studies on ophiocomid brittlestars. I. A new genus (Clarkcoma) of Ophiocominae with a re-evaluation of the genus Ophiocoma. Smithson. Contr. Zool. 51: 1-41. [details]   

source of synonymy Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
 

Syntype MCZ OPH-1666 [details]
Unknown type MCZ OPH-1666 [details]
Syntype MCZ OPH-1668 [details]
From other sources
Description Colour in life:aboral side of the disc and basal part of the arms uniform brown. Distal part of the arms lighter brown with dark cross-bands. Oral side of the disc yellowish-brown. Many specimens with dark brown, round spots, with light edges (Balinsky, 1957).
Tropical Indo-Pacific, also in Australia in Kalk (1958). [details]

Holotype Holotype whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: Hawaiian Ils. and Kiribati (as Sandwich Ils./Kingsmill Ils.) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Synonymy Treated as a synonym of O. brevipes in Ludwig (1899). [details]
 

To MCZbase - Harvard University (MCZ OPH-1666) 
To MCZbase - Harvard University (MCZ OPH-1668) 

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