WoRMS taxon details
Ophiocoma pica Müller & Troschel, 1842
AphiaID: 212384
AphiaID: 212384
| 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 lineolata Müller & Troschel, 1842 Ophiocoma sannio Lyman, 1861 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Müller, J.H.; Troschel, F.H. 1842. System der Asteriden. , 1-134. Vieweg: Braunschweig [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] basis of record: Devaney, D.M. (1970). Studies on ophiocomid brittlestars. I. A new genus (Clarkcoma) of Ophiocominae with a re-evaluation of the genus Ophiocoma. Smithson. Contr. Zool. 51: 1-41. [details] from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Lyman, T. 1862. Descriptions of new Ophiuridae. Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 8, 75-86. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Comores [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (33 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: disc with thin gold radiating lines on a dark brown background, long dark brown arm spines, dumb-bell-shaped gold and cream bands on the dorsal arm plates which were otherwise dark brown, ventral arm plates with a similar pattern, oral shields dark brown with white lateral edges (Sloan et al., 1979). Description: arm length to 4 cm, disc diameter to 10 mm. Disc granules uniform in size, covering the radial shields, extending into a V-shaped interradial area orally. Aboral arm plates distally broader and convex. Oral arm plates broad. Up to six arm spines, thick, flat, or round and pointed, upper ones longest. Arms with long spines and white banding. Habitat: among coral (Tortonese, 1980). Also distributed in Gilbert Islands, Tuamotus (Clark, 1954); SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, south Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995)); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991). General distribution: from the Red Sea to Hawaii and SE Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); WIO, Red Sea to W Pacific (Richmond, 1998); tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, littoral waters (Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995)); East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands in Sastry (1991). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Type locality: Type locality: unknown. Holotype (probable) Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (France) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ophiartrum pictum Müller and Troschel = Ophiocoma pica??(Lyman, 1874). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212384 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiocoma pica 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=212384 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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