WoRMS taxon details
Ophiactis savignyi (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
AphiaID: 125122
AphiaID: 125122
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Ophiactidae (Family) > Ophiactis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Ophiactis Lütken, 1856 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ophiactis brocki de Loriol, 1893 (synonym) Ophiactis conferta Koehler, 1905 Ophiactis incisa v. Martens, 1870 Ophiactis krebsii Lütken, 1856 (synonym) Ophiactis maculosa von Martens, 1870 Ophiactis quadrispina H.L. Clark, 1915 Ophiactis reinhardti Lütken, 1859 Ophiactis reinhardtii Lütken, 1859 Ophiactis sexradia (Grube, 1857) Ophiactis sixradia Lütken, 1853 Ophiactis versicolor H.L. Clark, 1939 Ophiactis virescens Lütken, 1856 Ophiolepis savignyi Müller & Troschel, 1842 (synonym) Ophiolepis sexradia Grube, 1857 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
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: Clark, A.M. and F.W.E. Rowe. (1971). Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): 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: Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Cherbonnier, G. & A. Guille (1978). Echinodermes: Ophiurides. Faune de Madagascar. No 48: iv +272pp. [details] additional source: Ljungman, A. (1867). Ophiuroidea viventia huc usque cognita enumerat. Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar 23(9): 303-336. [details] additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: 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] original description (from synonym): Müller, J.H.; Troschel, F.H. 1842. System der Asteriden. , 1-134. Vieweg: Braunschweig [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Loriol, P. de. 1893. Echinodermes de la Baie d'Amboine. Revue Suisse zool., 1, 359-426, pls 13-15. [details] [view taxon] additional source (from synonym): North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): 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] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Clark, H.L. (1939). Ophiuroidea. Scient. Rep. Murray Exped. 6: 29-136. [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Grube, A.E. 1857. Diagnosen einiger neuer Echinodermen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 23, 340-344. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Lütken, C.F. 1859. Additamenta ad historiam Ophiuridarum. Anden Afdelning. Det kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskaps Skrifter. 5 Raekke, Naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk Afdelning, 5, 177-271, 5 pl. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Martens, E. v. (1870). Die Ophiuriden des indischen Oceans. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 36: 244-262. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Clark, H.L. (1915). Catalogue of Recent ophiurans. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. 25(4): 163-376, 20 pls. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Koehler, R. 1905. Ophiures de l'expédition du Siboga. Part 2. Ophiures littorales. Siboga Expeditie, 45b. [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] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Belize [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Chagos [details] Colombia [details] Comores [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] Dominican Republic [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Haiti [details] Honduras [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mexico [details] Mozambique [details] Panama [details] Puerto Rico [details] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] Venezuela [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | ||||||||||
| Specimens |
Holotype (from synonym) , locality Egypt [view taxon]
Holotype , locality Egypt [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) To Antarctic Invertebrates To Barcode of Life (16 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (48 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (123 nucleotides; 123 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: green background, disc with more or less regular dark and light green markings, arms similarly banded, ventrally white with some green markings on arms (Humphreys, 1981). Arm length to 2 cm, disc diameter to 5 mm. With 2-7 arms. Colour variegated light and dark on disc, banded yellow to blue green on arms. Aboral disc scales distinct, with scattered spinelets. Radial shields large, contiguous ar the distal end. Oral shields large, adoral shields smaller, not meeting proximally. Aboral arm plates elliptical with rounded lateral margins, distal edge convex with a median lobe made prominent by a dark spot on either side. Six short arm spines, rugose and spinulated.Reproduces by splitting down the centre, resulting in individuals with arms of uneven length. Habitat: on rocks, gorgonians, sponges, crevices, algae, turtle-grass beds and other seagrasses. General distribution: tropical Indo-Pacific (Kalk, 1958); circumtropical (Tortonese, 1980); deep range 0-500, tropical, circumglobal (Rowe & Gates, 1995>/a>); tropical Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans (Sastry, 1991). Also distributed in Gilbert Islands, Tuamotus (Clark, 1954); SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, W India, Pakistan, Maldive area Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995)); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991); India (Andamans and Lakshadweep), tropical Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans (Sastry, 1996). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, continental slope (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125122 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S.; Hansson, H. (2013). Ophiactis savignyi (Müller & Troschel, 1842). 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=125122 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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