Astrocladus exiguus (Lamarck, 1816) 
AphiaID: 213437

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Euryalida (Order) > Gorgonocephalidae (Family) > Astrocladus (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Astrocladus Verrill, 1899
Synonymised taxa		Astrocladus verrucosum (Lamarck, 1816) (synonym acc. to H.L. Clark, 1915) Astrophyton exiguus (Lamarck, 1816) Euryale exiguum Lamarck, 1816 Euryale exiguus Lamarck, 1816 Gorgonocephalus cornutum Koehler, 1898 Gorgonocephalus cornutus Koehler, 1897
Sources		basis of record: Cherbonnier, G. & A. Guille (1978). Echinodermes: Ophiurides. Faune de Madagascar. No 48: iv +272pp. [details] source of synonymy: Clark, H.L. (1915). Catalogue of Recent ophiurans. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. 25(4): 163-376, 20 pls.  [details] from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Lamarck, J.B. de. 1816. Ordre Second. Radiaires Échinodermes. Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, 2, 522-568. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Koehler, R. 1898. Echinoides et Ophiures provenant des campagnes du yacht l'Hirondelle (Golfe de Gascogne, Acores, Terre-Nueve). Résultats des Campagnes scientifiques par Prince Albert I, Monaco, 12, 1-78, 9 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18768#page/7/mode/1up [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Koehler, R. 1897. Note sur les formes profondes d’Ophiures recueillies par >>l’Investigator<< dans l’Ocean Indien. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 531, 1-4. [details] [view taxon]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Madagascar [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Notes		Distribution: Also distributed in Bay of Bengal, East Indies, Philippine, China and south Japan (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). General distribution: tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 18-494 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Type data: status undetermined Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France). Type locality: 'l'océan austral?' (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213437
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2000-04-18 18:44:36Z   created   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2000-09-19 07:15:44Z   changed   Garcia, Maria 2007-07-18 12:17:12Z   checked   Stöhr, Sabine
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		Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Astrocladus exiguus (Lamarck, 1816). In: Stöhr, S. & O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013) World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: Stöhr, S. & O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013) World Ophiuroidea database at http://www.marinespecies.org/Ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213437 on 2013-05-25