WoRMS taxon details
Ophiocoma scolopendrina (Lamarck, 1816)
AphiaID: 212378
AphiaID: 212378
| 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 |
Ophiocoma alternans von Martens, 1870 (synonym) Ophiocoma lubrica Koehler, 1898 (synonym) Ophiocoma molaris Lyman, 1862 Ophiocoma variabilis Grube, 1857 (synonym) Ophiura scolopendrina Lamarck, 1816 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
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] 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] basis of record (from synonym): Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] source of synonymy (from synonym): Clark, H.L. (1921). The echinoderm fauna of Torres Strait: its composition and its origin. Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institute 10: vi + 223, 38 pls. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Grube, E. 1857. Beschreibungen neuer oder weniger bekannter Seesterne und Seeigel. Akademie, 27, 1-50. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Lamarck, J.B. de. 1816. Ordre Second. Radiaires Échinodermes. Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, 2, 522-568. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Lyman, T. 1862. Descriptions of new Ophiuridae. Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 8, 75-86. page(s): 79 [details] [view taxon] source of synonymy (from synonym): Lyman, T. (1874). Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae: new and old, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., Vol. 3: 221-272, 7 pls (look up in IMIS) page(s): 225 [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Martens, E. v. (1870). Die Ophiuriden des indischen Oceans. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 36: 244-262. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Koehler, R. 1898. Echinoides et Ophiures provenant des campagnes du yacht l'Hirondelle (Golfe de Gascogne, Acores, Terre-Nueve). Résultats des Campagnes scientifiques par Prince Albert I, Monaco, 12, 1-78, 9 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18768#page/7/mode/1up [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | type locality: Mauritius [details] Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Lifou [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (83 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: very varied, dorsal disc uniformly black to pale brown to black variegated pattern, dorsal arm plates brown or paler brown regions several segments wide (Humphreys, 1981), ventral disc is light coloured or variegated, never uniformly dark. Description: arm length to 13 cm, disc diameter to 20 mm. Disc surface with fine rounded granules, extending into a V-shaped interradial area orally. Aboral arm plates broader than long, narrower on one side. Arm spines alternating three and four, stout, uppe ones shorter and club-shaped. Arms irregularly banded, conspicuously extended by otherwise hidden animals to collect food particles from the water surface on flooding tides. Habitat: upper and middle eulittoral, in crevices and under boulders. Also distributed in Gilbert Islands, Tuamotus, Fiji, Guam, Saipan, Solomon Islands, New Guinea (Clark, 1954); SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995)); Japan (Tortonese, 1949); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991). General distribution: from the Red Sea to SE Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); WIO, Red Sea to W Pacific (Richmond, 1998); littoral waters, tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean (Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995)); East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands in Sastry (1991). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Type data: status undetermined Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France). Type locality: 'Isle de France [Mauritius](Rowe & Gates, 1995). Also recorded from 'Coin Peros' by Bell (1909) - locality can't be traced. O. erinaceus Müller & Troschel and O. alternans von Martens are also treated as a synonym of O. scolopendrina in Ludwig (1899). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212378 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiocoma scolopendrina (Lamarck, 1816). 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=212378 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||||||||
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