WoRMS taxon details
Ophiactis picteti (de Loriol, 1893)
AphiaID: 212328
AphiaID: 212328
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Ophiactidae (Family) > Ophiactis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Ophiactis Lütken, 1856 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Amphiactis picteti (de Loriol, 1893) Ophiactis sinensis Mortensen, 1934 (junior synonym) Ophiocnida picteti de Loriol, 1893 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
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] basis of record: Cherbonnier, G. & A. Guille (1978). Echinodermes: Ophiurides. Faune de Madagascar. No 48: iv +272pp. [details] from synonym: Loriol, P. de. 1893. Echinodermes de la Baie d'Amboine. Revue Suisse zool., 1, 359-426, pls 13-15. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Liao Y, Clark AM (1995) The Echinoderms of Southern China. Science Press, Beijing. 614 pp. page(s): 216 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Seychelles [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Also distributed in East Indies (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf. General distribution: tropical, (Indo-Malayan Region, Madagascar, western Indian Ocean), depth range 0-50 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Holotype: Holotype ?Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Genève (Switzerland). Type locality: Amboina, Indonesia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Misidentified as O. hemiteles in some works (Sloan et al, 1979). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212328 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiactis picteti (de Loriol, 1893). 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=212328 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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