Ophiocnemis marmorata (Lamarck, 1816) 
AphiaID: 212431

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Echinodermata > Asterozoa > Ophiuroidea > Ophiurida > Ophiurina > Gnathophiurina > Ophiotrichidae > Ophiocnemis

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Ophiocnemis Müller & Troschel, 1842
Synonymised taxa		Ophiura marmorata Lamarck, 1816
Sources		basis of record: Clark, A.M. and F.W.E. Rowe. (1971). Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London., available online at http://www.abctaxa.be/downloads/additional-information-volume-1/works-famous-holothuroid-workers/fwe-rowe/MonographIndoWestPacific.pdf [details] basis of record: Cherbonnier, G. & A. Guille (1978). Echinodermes: Ophiurides. Faune de Madagascar. No 48: iv +272pp. [details] basis of record: Lyman, T. (1874). Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae: new and old, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., Vol. 3: 221-272, 7 pls (look up in IMIS) [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details]
Notes		Description: Description: dorsal disc scales covered by small rounded granulation, ventral disc scales with skin-covering; large tentacle scales naked; dorsal arm plates as broad as long; cluster of infradental oral papillae, no lateral oral papillae; ventral arm plates with distal and proximal edges concave; five blunt arm spines, middle one longest (Sastry, 1995). Habitat: subtidal sandy areas (Sastry, 1995). Also distributed in Sri Lanka and New Holland (Ljungman, 1866); Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, norht Australia, Philippine, China and south Japan (Clark & Rowe, 1971); India (West Bengal), Andaman and Tamil Nadu (Sastry, 1995); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). General distribution: East coast of Africa to Australia (Sastry, 1995); tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-39 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Holotype: Holotype (probable) Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France). Type locality: unknown (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Described by Müller & Troschel according to Ludwig (1899). [details]
Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-02-03 23:00:00Z   created   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2000-09-27 07:27:35Z   changed   Maria 2007-07-18 12:17:12Z   checked   Stöhr, Sabine 2009-07-03 09:42:54Z   changed   Stöhr, Sabine
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		Citation: Stöhr, S. (2009). Ophiocnemis marmorata (Lamarck, 1816). In: Stöhr, S., O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2009). World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: Stöhr, S., O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2009). World Ophiuroidea database at http://www.marinespecies.org/Ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212431 on 2010-07-30