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Ophidiaster granifer Lütken, 1871 
AphiaID: 212302

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Ophidiasteridae (Family) > Ophidiaster (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Ophidiaster L. Agassiz, 1836
Synonymised
taxa		  Ophidiaster trychnus Fisher, 1913 (synonym according to H.L. Clark (1921))
Source  basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Palau Islands [details]
Red Sea [details]
West Indian Ocean [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Notes  Distribution: Also distributed in Seleo Island (Clark, 1954); east Indies, north australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-22 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Holotype: Holotype (probable) ?Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen (Denmark). Type locality: Tonga, South Pacific (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Synonymy: Thought to be a synonym of Ophidiaster pusillus Muller & Troschel, 1842 by Doderlein (1926) but a valid species according to H.L. Clark (1946). [details]
Image 
Ophidiaster granifer Lütken, 1871
Ophidiaster granifer Lütken, 1871
added on 2012-06-06 - author: Drs. WJ Chen & LC Lo ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212302
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2000-07-31 07:43:16Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2000-09-26 07:19:20Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2008-10-24 23:33:30Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
2008-12-25 15:21:38Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Ophidiaster granifer Lütken, 1871. In: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212302 on 2013-05-25
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