WoRMS taxon details
Ophiocoma doederleini de Loriol, 1899
AphiaID: 212387
AphiaID: 212387
| 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 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Loriol, P. de. 1899. Notes pour servir a l'histoire des Echinodermes. VII. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Historie Naturelle de Genève, 33(1), 1-34. [details] basis of record: Humphreys, W.F. (1981). The echinoderms of Kenya's marine parks and adjacent regions. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Africa (Tervuren, Belgium) Zoologische Documentatie 19. 39 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Kenya [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: disc grey with hexagonal paler areas, or uniformly grey-brown above with five single white dorsal arm plates spaced along arm, genital slits and oral shields witih pale grey borders (Humphreys, 1981). Also distributed in Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore. General distribution: tropical, discontinuous (east and western Indian Ocean and west central Pacific Ocean), littoral waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Holotype: Holotype in Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Genève (Switzeland). Type locality: Mauritius (as 'Ile Maurice')(Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212387 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiocoma doederleini de Loriol, 1899. 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=212387 on 2013-06-18 | ||||||||||||||
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