WoRMS taxon details
Ophiocoma schoenleinii Müller & Troschel, 1842
AphiaID: 212372
AphiaID: 212372
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Ophiocomidae (Family) > Ophiocominae (Subfamily) > Ophiocoma (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Ophiocoma L. Agassiz, 1835 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ophiactis nigrescens Hutton, 1872 Ophiocoma schoenleini Müller & Troschel, 1842 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Müller, J.H.; Troschel, F.H. 1842. System der Asteriden. , 1-134. Vieweg: Braunschweig [details] status source: Benavides-Serrato, M. & O'Hara, T.D. (2008). A new species in the Ophiocoma erinaceus complex from the South-west Pacific Ocean (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Ophiocomidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65: 51-56. [details] from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Hutton, F.W. 1872. Catalogue of the echinodermata of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species. Colonial Museum and Geological Department, i-iv, 1-18. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Mozambique [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) To Encyclopedia of Life | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Also distributed in Gilbert Islands (Clark, 1954); Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore. General distribution: tropical, east Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, littoral waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Spelling: O. schoenleini in Bell (1884) and Clark & Rowe (1971). By von Martens (1870) and by Marktanner-Turneretscher (1867) also treated as a synonym of O. erinaceus in Ludwig (1899). Holotype Museum für Naturkunde an der Universität Humbolt zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany) 930. Type locality: India (as 'Indien')(Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Synonymy: Only tentative. All uniformly black ophiocomas seen by Clark and Rowe are referrable to O. erinaceus. Treated as a synonym of O. scolopendrina by Ludwig (1899) . [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212372 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiocoma schoenleinii Müller & Troschel, 1842. 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=212372 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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