Astrobrachion constrictum (Farquhar, 1900) 
AphiaID: 243146

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Euryalida (Order) > Euryalidae (Family) > Euryalinae (Subfamily) > Astrobrachion (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Astrobrachion Doederlein, 1927
Synonymised taxa		Ophiocreas constrictum (Farquhar, 1900) Ophiocreas constrictus Farquhar, 1900 Ophiocreas phanerum H.L. Clark, 1916 Ophiuropsis lymani simplex Mortensen, 1933 Ophiuropsis simplex Mortensen, 1933 (synonym)
Sources		basis of record: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Mah, C.L., D.G. McKnight, M.K. Eagle, D.L. Pawson, N. Ameziane, D.J. Vance, A.N. Baker, H.E.S. Clark, and N. Alcock. 2009. Phylum Echinodermata. In Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch; 371-400.  [details] source of synonymy: Baker, A.N. (1980). Euryalinid Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from Australia, New Zealand, and the south-west Pacific Ocean. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 7(1) 1980: 11-83. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 26-27 [details] from synonym: Mortensen, T. 1933. Studies of Indo-Pacific Euryalids. Meddelande fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening, 96 (2), 1-75. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark, H.L. 1916. I. Report on the sea-lilies. starfishes, brittle-stars and sea-urchins obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia. Biological Results of the Fishing experiments carried on by the F.I.S. Endeavour 1909-1914, 4(1), 1-123. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Farquhar, H. 1900. On a new species of Ophiuroidea. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 32, 405. [details] [view taxon]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links		To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:243146
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2007-07-18 12:17:12Z   created   Stöhr, Sabine
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		Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Astrobrachion constrictum (Farquhar, 1900). 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=243146 on 2013-05-22