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Ophiura sarsii Lütken, 1855 
AphiaID: 124934

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Chilophiurina (Infraorder) > Ophiuridae (Family) > Ophiurinae (Subfamily) > Ophiura (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Ophiura Lamarck, 1801
Synonymised
taxa
  Ophiura arctica Lütken, 1855 (synonym acc. to H.L. Clark (1915))
Ophiura coriacea Lütken, 1855 (synonymized by Lyman (1882))
Ophiura sarsi Lütken, 1855 (grammatically incorrect spelling)
Sources  original description: Lütken, C.F. (1855). Bidrag til Kundskab om Slangestjernerne. I. Forelöbig Oversigt over Grönlandshavet Ophiurer. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening 1854, 6: 95-104. [details]

basis of record: Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 336-351 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Gosner, 1977 [details]

additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details]

additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details]

additional source: Southward, E.C.; Campbell, A.C. (2006). [Echinoderms: keys and notes for the identification of British species]. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 56. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury, UK. ISBN 1-85153-269-2. 272 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Lyman, T. 1882. Report on the Opiuroidea. Report of the Scientific Results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873-76. Zoology, 5(1), 1-386. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Clark, H.L. (1915). Catalogue of Recent ophiurans. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. 25(4): 163-376, 20 pls.  [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance, C. G. Messing, F. A. Solis-Marin, and C. L. Mah. 2009. Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1177–1204 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College S [details] [view taxon]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Norwegian Bokmål sarsslangestjerne (from synonym)  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk sarsslangestjerne (from synonym)  [details]
Swedish storfjällig fransormstjärna  [details]
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 Subspecies Ophiura sarsii vadicola Djakonov, 1954

Subspecies Ophiura sarsii kurilensis Baranova (species inquirenda)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Arctic Ocean [details]
Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Cobscook Bay [details]
Denmark [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
England [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
German Bight [details]
Grand Banks [details]
Gulf of Maine (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Manicouagan [details]
North Pacific [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Northern North Pacific [details]
Norway [details]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
Saint Lawrence River [details]
Shetlands [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Feedingtypes  omnivore [details]
predator [details]
scavenger [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Breeding: Probably ophiopluteus larva [details]

Distribution: Occaasional, in 100 to 200 m depth around Shetland and in the northern North Sea [details]

Original description: Lütken, C.F. 1855. Oversigt over Grönlands Echinodermata samt over denne Dyreklasses geographiske og bathymetriske Udbredningsforhold. PhD thesis, University of Copenhagen, 109 pp. [details]

Spelling: Called Ophiura sarsi in Southward, E.C.; Campbell, A.C. (2006). [Echinoderms: keys and notes for the identification of British species]. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 56. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury, UK. ISBN 1-85153-269-2. 272 pp. [details]
Images 
Ophiura sarsii Lütken, 1858
Ophiura sarsii Lütken, 1858
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qualitystatus: checked by Stöhr, Sabine on 2012-10-12 10:02:43

Ophiura sarsii Lütken, 1858
Ophiura sarsii Lütken, 1858
added on 2006-08-10 - author: IMARES ()
qualitystatus: checked by Stöhr, Sabine on 2012-10-12 10:10:15

Ophiura sarsii Lütken, 1858
Ophiura sarsii Lütken, 1858
added on 2006-08-10 - author: IMARES ()
qualitystatus: checked by Stöhr, Sabine on 2012-11-16 09:05:58

Ophiura sarsii
Ophiura sarsii
added on 2007-02-14 - author: Edyta i Wojtek
qualitystatus: checked by Stöhr, Sabine on 2012-10-12 10:02:55

Ophiura sarsii
Ophiura sarsii
added on 2007-02-14 - author: Edyta i Wojtek
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Ophiura sarsii
Ophiura sarsii
added on 2007-02-14 - author: Edyta i Wojtek
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Ophiura sarsii
Ophiura sarsii
added on 2007-02-14 - author: Edyta i Wojtek
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Ophiura sarsi
[image from synonym]
Ophiura sarsi
added on 2010-02-10 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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Ophiura sarsii from St. Lawrence
Ophiura sarsii from St. Lawrence
added on 2010-07-13 - author: Nozères, Claude
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124934
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2007-07-02 07:37:16Z  changed  Stöhr, Sabine
2007-07-18 12:17:12Z  checked  Stöhr, Sabine
  
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  Citation: Stöhr, S.; Hansson, H. (2013). Ophiura sarsii Lütken, 1855. In: Stöhr, S., O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013). World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=124934 on 2013-05-24
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