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Amphiura duncani Lyman, 1882 
AphiaID: 212353

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Amphiuridae (Family) > Amphiura (Genus)
Status alternate representation
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Amphiura (Amphiura) duncani Lyman, 1882
Rank Species
Parent Amphiura Forbes, 1843
Sources  original description: Lyman, T. 1882. Report on the Opiuroidea. Report of the Scientific Results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873-76. Zoology, 5(1), 1-386. [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]

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
Link To Barcode of Life
Notes  Ecology: Ecology: benthic, inshore. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west-central pacific Ocean, depth range 0-20 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Also recorded in Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Remark: In subgenus (Amphiura) Forbes, 1843. Holotype in Natural History Museum, London (England) No. 1880.1.3.15. Type locality: Koren Seas (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212353
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2000-09-21 07:28:19Z  created  Garcia, Maria
2000-09-29 13:20:33Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2007-08-27 13:50:37Z  checked  Stöhr, Sabine
  
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  Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Amphiura duncani Lyman, 1882. 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=212353 on 2013-05-24
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