WoRMS taxon details
Ophiactis modesta Brock, 1888
AphiaID: 212334
AphiaID: 212334
| 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 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Brock, J. 1888. Die Ophiuridenfauna des indischen Archipels. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 47, 465-539. [details] basis of record: Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details] source of synonymy: 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, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Description: disc scales with scattered pointed spinelets; single thick oral papilla, no infradental papilla; variation in the structure of the adoral shields; dorsal arm plates broader than long, distal edge concave; five pointed arm spines (some variation in the number of arm spines), uppermost or the next the longest (Sastry, 1995). Colour: O. modesta is easily mistaken in the field for O. savignyi, but its green is more bluish than that of the latter species. A pair of white spots near the distal margin of each dorsal arm plate (Balinsky, 1957). Also distributed in W India, Pakistan, East Indies, north Australia, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia in Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995); India (West Bengal), Andamans and Tamil Nadu (Sastry, 1995). General distribution: tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958); tropical, west Pacific Ocean (also West India adn Pakistan); Arabian Sea to Hawaiian Is. (Sastry, 1995); tropical, west Pacific Ocean (also West India and Pakistan) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Syntypes ?Zoologisches Museum, Göttingen (Germany) (3 specimens).Type locality: Amboina, Indonesia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). In family 'amphiuridae' in Kalk (1958). [details] Taxonomic status: Cherbonnier & Guille (1978) regard O. modesta as a colour variant of O. savignyi. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212334 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiactis modesta Brock, 1888. 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=212334 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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