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Ophiothrix propinqua Lyman, 1861

212421  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212421)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Asterozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Ophiuroidea (Class)
  6. Myophiuroidea (Subclass)
  7. Metophiurida (Infraclass)
  8. Ophintegrida (Superorder)
  9. Amphilepidida (Order)
  10. Gnathophiurina (Suborder)
  11. Ophiactoidea (Superfamily)
  12. Ophiotrichidae (Family)
  13. Ophiothrix (Genus)
  14. Ophiothrix propinqua (Species)
 unaccepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Lyman, T. (1861). Descriptions of new Ophiuridae. Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist. 8, 75-86. [details]   
Holotype  MCZ OPH-2399  
Holotype MCZ OPH-2399 [details]
Description Colour in life: Very variable as noted by Balinsky (1957), but overall dark blueish with darker arm banding (Sloan et al.,...  
Description Colour in life: Very variable as noted by Balinsky (1957), but overall dark blueish with darker arm banding (Sloan et al., 1979).
Also distributed in Tuamotus, Gilbert Islands, Canton Island (Clark,1954); SE Arabia, Maldive area, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971).
General distribution: from the Red Sea to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980). [details]
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T. & Thuy, B. (Eds) (2018). World Ophiuroidea database. Ophiothrix propinqua Lyman, 1861. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/Ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212421 on 2018-04-25
Date
action
by
1997-02-03 23:00:00Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-22 07:17:05Z
changed
Garcia, Maria
2007-08-27 13:50:37Z
checked
Stöhr, Sabine

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

source of synonymy Clark, A. M. (1980). Some Ophiuroidea from the Seychelles islands and Inhaca, Mozambique. Rev. Zool. Afr. 94(3): 533-558. (look up in IMIS) [details]   

source of synonymy Clark, A. M. (1968). Notes on some tropical indo-pacific ophiotrichids and ophiodermatids (Ophiuroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology. 16(7): 277-322, 1pl. [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 
 

Holotype MCZ OPH-2399 [details]
From other sources
Description Colour in life: Very variable as noted by Balinsky (1957), but overall dark blueish with darker arm banding (Sloan et al., 1979).
Also distributed in Tuamotus, Gilbert Islands, Canton Island (Clark,1954); SE Arabia, Maldive area, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971).
General distribution: from the Red Sea to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980). [details]

Remark In Subgenus: (Keystonea) A.M. Clark, 1967 Sloan et al., 1979.
Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) No. 2399. Type locality: Kiribati (as Kingsmills Is) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
 

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) 
To MCZbase - Harvard University (MCZ OPH-2399) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (1 record) 

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