Ophiuroidea taxon details

Astroboa clavata (Lyman, 1861)

213440  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213440)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Asterozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Ophiuroidea (Class)
  6. Myophiuroida (Subclass)
  7. Metophiurida (Infraclass)
  8. Euryophiurida (Superorder)
  9. Euryalida (Order)
  10. Gorgonocephalidae (Family)
  11. Gorgonocephalinae (Subfamily)
  12. Astroboa (Genus)
  13. Astroboa clavata (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Astrophyton clavatum Lyman, 1861) Lyman, T. (1861). Descriptions of new Ophiuridae. <em>Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist.</em> 8: 75-86., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9492489 [details]   
Holotype  (of Astrophyton clavatum Lyman, 1861) MCZ...  
Holotype (of Astrophyton clavatum Lyman, 1861) MCZ OPH-2900 [details]
Description Description: as for A. nuda, but with thorny granules of varying size over the body and arms (Richmond 1997).
Also...  
Description Description: as for A. nuda, but with thorny granules of varying size over the body and arms (Richmond 1997).
Also distributed in SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal and north Australia (Clark & Rowe, 1971); northern Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
General distribution: tropical Indian Ocean (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2024). World Ophiuroidea Database. Astroboa clavata (Lyman, 1861). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213440 on 2024-04-19
Date
action
by
1997-02-03 23:00:00Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-29 13:20:33Z
changed
Garcia, Maria
2007-07-18 12:17:12Z
checked
Stöhr, Sabine

original description  (of Astrophyton clavatum Lyman, 1861) Lyman, T. (1861). Descriptions of new Ophiuridae. <em>Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist.</em> 8: 75-86., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9492489 [details]   

basis of record Clark, A. M.; Rowe, F. W. E. (1971). Monograph of shallow-water indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. <em>Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History).</em> London. x + 238 p. + 30 pls., available online at http://www.abctaxa.be/downloads/additional-information-volume-1/works-famous-holothuroid-workers/fwe-rowe/MonographIndoWestPacific.pdf [details]   

additional source Cherbonnier, G.; Guille, A. (1978). Echinodermes: Ophiurides. <em>Faune de Madagascar, 48.</em> Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS): Paris. ISBN 2-222-02341-6. 272 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype (of Astrophyton clavatum Lyman, 1861) MCZ OPH-2900 [details]
From other sources
Description Description: as for A. nuda, but with thorny granules of varying size over the body and arms (Richmond 1997).
Also distributed in SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal and north Australia (Clark & Rowe, 1971); northern Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
General distribution: tropical Indian Ocean (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Spelling Genus spelled Astroba in Vine (1986).
Holotype in Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, (USA) No. 475. Type locality: Zanzibar (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
To MCZbase - Harvard University (MCZ OPH-2900) (from synonym Astrophyton clavatum Lyman, 1861)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (1 record) 

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