WoRMS taxon details
Ophiocomina nigra (Abildgaard in O.F. Müller, 1789) AphiaID: 125027
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Ophiocomidae (Family) > Ophiocominae (Subfamily) > Ophiocomina (Genus) > Ophiocomina nigra (Species)
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| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Ophiocomina Koehler, 1920 in Mortensen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Orig. name | Asterias nigra Abildgaard in O.F. Müller, 1789 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised names |
Asterias nigra Abildgaard in O.F. Müller, 1789 (synonym)Ophiacantha (Ophiotreta) danae Mortensen, 1933 (synonym)Ophiacantha danae Mortensen, 1933 (synonym)Ophiacantha valenciennesi sensu Lieberkind, 1929, non Lyman (synonym)Ophiocoma granulata Forbes, 1839 (synonym)Ophiocoma nigra (Abildgaard in O.F. Müller, 1789) (synonym acc. to Mortensen (1927))Ophiocoma nigru (Abildgaard in O.F. Müller, 1789) (most likely a spelling error of uncertain origin)Ophiocoma nilssoni Müller & Troschel, 1842 (synonym)Ophiocoma raschi G.O. Sars, 1872 (synonym)Ophiothrix granulata (Johnston, 1935) (synonym)Ophiura granulata Johnston, 1935 (synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description Müller O. F. (1789). Zoologia Danica seu animalium Daniae et Norvegiae rariorum ac minus notorum descriptiones et historia. Volumen tertium: pp. [1-2], 1-71, pls. 81-120. Havniae [Copenhague], N. Möller., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PPN=PPN614794331 [details] [show all] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | From other sources
Bay of Biscay Concarneau [details]France Roscoff [details]Ireland Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]Irish Sea and St. George's Channel Irish Sea [details]Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea [details]Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin Sicily [details]North Atlantic Ocean Azores [details]Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]European waters (ERMS scope) [details]North East Atlantic [details]Shetlands [details]North Sea Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]North Sea [details]Norway Norway [details]Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]Sweden Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]United Kingdom British Isles [details]Devon [details]South Coast of England [details]West Coast of England [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
adult: detritus feeder [details]
omnivore [details] scavenger [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Cancerilla tubulata Dalyell, 1851 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Collocheres elegans A. Scott, 1896 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 26 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (6 records) To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | From other sources
Authority Massin & De Ridder mention (Müller, 1776) as authority instead of (Abildgaard, 1789). [details]Breeding Ophiopluteus larva. Summer [details]Distribution Sublittoral to about 100 m depth, on coarse sand and gravel around western coasts of the British Isles from Devon to Shetland, including the Irish Sea, and down the norheast coast to Northumberland. Otherwise absent from the North Sea [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125027 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S.; Hansson, H. (2007). Ophiocomina nigra (Abildgaard in O.F. Müller, 1789). In: Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T. & Thuy, B. (Eds) (2017). World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125027 on 2017-07-22 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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