WoRMS taxon details
Opheodesoma spectabilis Fisher, 1907
AphiaID: 210712
AphiaID: 210712
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Holothuroidea (Class) > Apodida (Order) > Synaptidae (Family) > Opheodesoma (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Opheodesoma Fisher, 1907 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Fisher, W. K. (1907). The Holothurians of the Hawaiian Islands. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Inst, U. S. Nation. Mus., Proc. 32: (637-744). [details] basis of record: Humphreys, W.F. (1981). The echinoderms of Kenya's marine parks and adjacent regions. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Africa (Tervuren, Belgium) Zoologische Documentatie 19. 39 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||
| All child taxa [hide all] | Variety Opheodesoma spectabilis var. puerto-galerae Domantay, 1933 (nomen dubium) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Kenya (not certain) [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Stellicola holothuriae (Ummerkutty, 1961) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: deep brown above becoming greyish below, in contracted state becomes red-brown (Humphreys, 1981). Also distributed in Philippines, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details] Type locality: Type locality: Hawaii. Type specie of the genus Opheodesoma Fisher, 1907 (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210712 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Paulay, G. (2013). Opheodesoma spectabilis Fisher, 1907. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210712 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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