WoRMS taxon details
Ophiocoma pusilla (Brock, 1888)
AphiaID: 212382
AphiaID: 212382
| 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 latilanxa Murakami, 1943 Ophiomastix pusilla Brock, 1888 | |||||||||||||
| 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: Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details] from synonym: Brock, J. 1888. Die Ophiuridenfauna des indischen Archipels. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 47, 465-539. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Murakami, S. 1943. Report on the Ophiurans of Palao, Caroline Islands. Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Kyusyu Imperial University, 7(4), 159-204, 205-222, 223-234. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: disc uniform dark brown, occasionally spotted with white-rimmed dark spots, arms dark brown with lighter banding, ventrally overall red-brown (Sloan et al., 1979). Oral shields white with brown spots; arms variegated above and below, light and dark segmens often alternating; arm spines with 1-2 wide brown rings, never clavate, number very variable (Tortonese, 1980). Also distributed in East Indies (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); East Indies, Polynesia and Hawaii (Tortonese, 1980). Ecology: benthic, inshore. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, littoral waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Lectotype Museum für Naturkunde an der Universität Humbolt zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany) 5429, paralectotype Museum für Naturkunde an der Universität Humbolt zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany) 4777. Type locality: Amboina, Indonesia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212382 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiocoma pusilla (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=212382 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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