WoRMS taxon details
Ophiopholis aculeata (Linnaeus, 1767)
AphiaID: 125125
AphiaID: 125125
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Ophiactidae (Family) > Ophiopholis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Ophiopholis Müller & Troschel, 1842 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Ophiopholis Müller & Troschel, 1842 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Asterias aculeata Linnaeus, 1767 Ophiocoma bellis ?Forbes, 1839 (synonym) Ophiolepis scolopendrica Müller & Troschel, 1842 (synonym) Ophiopholis bellis (Forbes, 1839?) Polypholis echinata Duncan, 18?? (synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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: Bromley, J.E.C., and J.S. Bleakney. 1984. Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report 24119. 366 p. [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, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [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: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [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] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Müller, J.H.; Troschel, F.H. 1842. System der Asteriden. , 1-134. Vieweg: Braunschweig [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Duncan, P.M. 1880. On a synthetic type of ophiurid from the North Atlantic. Journal of the Linnean Society, 15, 73-78. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. 12th ed. v. 1 (pt 2): 533-1327, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5 [details] [view taxon] [full text] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Ophiopholis aculeata typica H.L. Clark, 1911 (species inquirenda) Subspecies Ophiopholis aculeata kennerlyi (Lyman, 1860) accepted as Ophiopholis kennerlyi Lyman, 1860 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Arctic Ocean [details] British Isles [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] German Bight [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Manicouagan [details] North East Atlantic [details] North Pacific [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] Scandinavia [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Coast of Norway [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Thalestris longimana Claus, 1863 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Thespesiopsyllus paradoxus (Sars G.O., 1913) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (38 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (223 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (40 nucleotides; 54 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Breeding: Ophiopluteus larva [details] Distribution: Arctic to Cape Cod [details] Distribution: Circumpolar [details] Distribution: Common on the lower shore and sublittoral region of the northern coast of British Isles and down to at least 100 m depth off western coasts; absent from the English Channel and southern North Sea [details] Habitat: intertidal, bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125125 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S.; Hansson, H. (2013). Ophiopholis aculeata (Linnaeus, 1767). 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=125125 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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