WoRMS taxon details
Ophidiaster hemprichi Müller & Troschel, 1842
AphiaID: 212303
AphiaID: 212303
| 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 |
Linckia hemprichi von Martens, 1866 Linckia pustulata von Martens, 1866 (Synonym according to Doderlein (1926)) Ophidiaster purpureus Perrier, 1869 (Synonym) Ophidiaster pustulatus von Martens, 1866 (Synonym) Ophidiaster pustulatus (von Martens, 1866) (Synonym according to Doderlein (1926) and A.M. Clark in Clark & Rowe (1971)) Ophidiaster squameus Fisher, 1906 (Probable synonym according to A.M. Clark in Clark & Rowe (1971)) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Walenkamp, J.H.C. (1990). Systematics and zoogeography of Asteroidea (Echinodermata) from Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Zoologische Verhandelingen 261, Leiden. 86 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Döderlein, L. (1926). Ueber Asteriden aus dem Museum von Stockholm. Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, Tredje Serien, Band 2, No. 6. 22 pp, 4 pls. [details] 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] original description (from synonym): Fisher, W.K. (1906). The starfishes of the Hawaiian islands. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 23: 987-1130. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Martens, E. von (1866). Ueber östasiatiche Echinodermen. 3. Seesterne des indischen Archipels. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 32:: 57-88; 133-189. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] East Africa [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Hawaiian Islands (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mascarene Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mauritius [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] New Caledonia [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Seychelles [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Specimens |
Holotype (from synonym): USNM 21174 [view taxon]
Paratype (from synonym): USNM E9640 [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: burgundy with irregular white flecking (Sloan et al., 1979 ). Also distributed in Maldive area, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and south Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-276 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Thought to be a synonym of Dactylosaster cylindricus (Lamarck, 1816) by H.L. Clark (1921) but a valid species according to Döderlein (1926). Syntypes in Museum für Naturkunde an der Universität Humbolt zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany). Type locality: Red Sea (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212303 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Ophidiaster hemprichi Müller & Troschel, 1842. 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=212303 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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