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WoRMS taxon details
 Ophiopholis aculeata (Linnaeus, 1767) AphiaID: 125125
| Status | | accepted |
| Rank | | Species |
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Ophiopholis Müller & Troschel, 1842
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| Parent | | Ophiopholis Müller & Troschel, 1842 |
| Orig. name | | Asterias aculeata Linnaeus, 1767 |
Synonymised
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Asterias aculeata Linnaeus, 1767
Ophiocoma bellis (Fleming, 1828) (synonym)
Ophiolepis scolopendrica Müller & Troschel, 1842 (synonym)
Ophiopholis aculeata typica H.L. Clark, 1911 (this is Clark's typical form, not a new subspecies)
Ophiopholis bellis (Forbes, 1839?)
Ophiura bellis Fleming, 1828
Polypholis echinata Duncan, 1880 (synonym)
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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 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 Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Hansson, H. (2004). North East Atlantic Taxa (NEAT): Nematoda. Internet pdf Ed. Aug 1998., available online at http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/taxa.html [details]
original description (of Ophiolepis scolopendrica Müller & Troschel, 1842) Müller, J. and Troschel, F. H. (1842). System der Asteriden.1. Asteriae. 2. Ophiuridae. Vieweg: Braunschweig. xxx+134 pp. 12 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44159 [details] [full text]
original description (of Polypholis echinata Duncan, 1880) Duncan, P. M. (1880). On a Synthetic Type of Ophiurid from the North Atlantic. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. 15(82): 73-78., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1880.tb00342.x [details]
basis of record (of Ophiopholis bellis (Forbes, 1839?)) Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details]
original description (of Asterias aculeata Linnaeus, 1767) Linnaeus C. (1767). Caroli Linnaei...Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis.
Editio duodecima. 1. Regnum Animale. 1 & 2
Holmiae, Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm], Laurentii Salvii. pp. 1-532 [1766] pp. 533-1327 [1767]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5 [details] [full text]
original description (of Ophiopholis aculeata typica H.L. Clark, 1911) Clark, H. L. (1911). North Pacific Ophiurans in the collection of the United States National Museum. Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin. 75: 1-302.
page(s): 116 [details]
original description (of Ophiura bellis Fleming, 1828) Fleming, J. (1828). A History of British Animals, Exhibiting the Descriptive Characters and Systematical Arrangement of the Genera and Species of Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, Fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; Including the Indigenous, Extirpated, and Extinct Kinds, Together with Periodical and Occasional Visitants. Bell & Bradfute, Edinburgh. pp. 1–565., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569 [details]
basis of record (of Ophiura bellis Fleming, 1828) Forbes, E. 1839. On the Asteriadae of the Irish Sea. Memoirs of the Wernerian Society, 8, 1-114. [details]
context source (Deepsea) Smirnov I.S., Piepenburg D., Ahearn C., Juterzenka K.V. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Ophiuroidea. Invertebrate Zoology. Vol.11. No.1: 192–209 [in English]. [details]
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Vernacular
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English |
 crevice brittlestar |
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French |
ophiure pâquerette |
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Japanese |
ヒナギククモヒトデ |
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Norwegian Bokmål |
kameleonslangestjerne |
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Norwegian Nynorsk |
kameleonslangestjerne |
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Swedish |
mosaikormstjärna |
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Subspecies Ophiopholis aculeata japonica (Lyman, 1879) accepted as Ophiopholis japonica Lyman, 1879
Subspecies Ophiopholis aculeata kennerlyi (Lyman, 1860) accepted as Ophiopholis kennerlyi Lyman, 1860
Subspecies Ophiopholis aculeata typica H.L. Clark, 1911 accepted as Ophiopholis aculeata (Linnaeus, 1767)
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Distribution | | From other sources
Arctic Ocean
Arctic Ocean [details]
Bay of Fundy
Cobscook Bay [details]
Canada
Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Arctic part] [details]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
Gulf of Saint Lawrence
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Manicouagan [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
Ireland
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
North Atlantic Ocean
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
North Pacific Ocean
North Pacific [details]
North Sea
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
German Bight [details]
North Sea [details]
Norway
West Coast of Norway [details]
Sweden
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom
British Isles [details]
(no group)
Scandinavia [details]
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| Feedingtype | |
suspension feeder [details]
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| Host of | |
Thalestris longimana Claus, 1863 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Thespesiopsyllus paradoxus (Sars G.O., 1913) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (51 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (236 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (40 nucleotides; 54 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (837 records)
To ITIS
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| Notes | | From other sources
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. (2007). Ophiopholis aculeata (Linnaeus, 1767). 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=125125 on 2017-06-27 |
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