| Status | |  unaccepted |
| Accepted name | |  Ophiocoma dentata Müller & Troschel, 1842 represented as Ophiocoma (Breviturma) dentata Müller & Troschel, 1842 |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Ophiocoma L. Agassiz, 1836 |
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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]
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Variety Ophiocoma insularia var. longispina H.L. Clark, 1917 accepted as Ophiocoma longispina H.L. Clark, 1917
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Distribution | | From other sources
Mozambique
 Mozambique (inaccurate) [details]
 Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien
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Syntype MCZ OPH-1666 [details]
Unknown type MCZ OPH-1666 [details]
Syntype MCZ OPH-1668 [details]
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| Links | | To MCZbase - Harvard University (MCZ OPH-1666)
To MCZbase - Harvard University (MCZ OPH-1668)
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| Attributes | | Functional group benthos » Stage adult (inherited from Ophiuroidea) [details]
Supporting structure & enclosure Endoskeleton » Structure Solid » Composition Calcareous > High-magnesium calcite (inherited from Echinodermata) [details] |
| Notes | | 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]
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212383 |
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| | | Citation: Stöhr, S. (2017). Ophiocoma insularia Lyman, 1861. In: Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T. & Thuy, B. (Eds) (2017). World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed at http://marinespecies.org/ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212383 on 2017-09-22 |
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