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Amphiura africana J.B. Balinsky, 1957 
AphiaID: 212362

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 (Fellaria) africana (J.B. Balinsky, 1957)
Rank Species
Parent Amphiura Forbes, 1843
Sources  original description: Balinsky, J.B. (1957). The Ophiuroidea of Inhaca Island. Ann. Natal Mus. 14: 1-33. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record: Clark, A.M. (1980). Some Ophiuroidea from the Seychelles islands and Inhaca, Mozambique. Rev. Zool. Afr. 94(3): 533-558. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record: Clark, A.M. and F.W.E. Rowe. (1971). Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London. x + 238 p. + 30 pls., available online at http://www.abctaxa.be/downloads/additional-information-volume-1/works-famous-holothuroid-workers/fwe-rowe/MonographIndoWestPacific.pdf [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Note  Remark: In Subgenus Fellaria A.M. Clark, 1970. Type locality: Inhaca I, Delagoa Bay. Possibly a junior synonym of Amphiura heptacanta (Mortensen, 1940) from the northern Gulf of Oman (Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212362
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-02-03 23:00:00Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-25 07:20:28Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2007-07-18 12:17:12Z  checked  Stöhr, Sabine
  
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  Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Amphiura africana J.B. Balinsky, 1957. 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=212362 on 2013-05-21
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