WoRMS name details
original description
Ljungman, A. V. (1866). Om några nya arter af Ophiurider. <em>Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar.</em> 23(6): 163-166., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32287621 [details]
context source (HKRMS)
Shin, P.K.S. & Thompson,G.B. (1982) Spatial distribution of the infaunal benthos of Hong Kong. Mar.Ecol.Prog.Ser. 10: 37-47. [details]
basis of record
Tortonese, E. (1977). Report on Echinoderms from the gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea). Italian Journal of Zoology N.S. S. IX(12): 273-290. [details]
additional source
Mah, C.L.; McKnight, D.G.; Eagle, M.K.; Pawson, D.L.; Améziane, N.; Vance, D.J.; Baker, A.N.; Clark, H.E.S.; Davey, N. (2009). Phylum Echinodermata: sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, sea lilies. In: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 371-400. [details]
additional source
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
From other sources
Description Description: arm length to 30 mm, disc diameter to 6 mm. Small species with disc plates of mixed sizes, but radial shields obvious. Plate with comb-like arrangement of spines at base of arm and between arm base and radial shields. Colour uniformly greyish. Habitat: eulittoral and deeper in coral rubble and other coarse substrates.
Also distributed in Gilbert Islands, Saipan (Clark, 1954); SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, W India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
General distribution: WIO, Red Sea to W Pacific (Richmond, 1998); tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 9-500 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, continental slope (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Remark Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: 'the sea off Sidney' (as Novae Hollandiae), Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
(Ljungman, 1866) in Rowe & Gates (1995). [details]
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