WoRMS taxon details
Ophiomastix koehleri Devaney, 1977
AphiaID: 212395
AphiaID: 212395
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Ophiocomidae (Family) > Ophiocominae (Subfamily) > Ophiomastix (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Ophiomastix Müller & Troschel, 1842 | |||||||||||||
| Source |
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] Comores [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Seychelles [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Colour in life: disc spineless, uniformly dark purple with white edges, dorsal arm plates off-white with large irregular purple patches over most of some pairs of plates giving dark arm band two segments wide in every five, pale or purple mottled clavate dorsal arm spines, small arm spines with purple and white annulations, tentacle scales banded, oral shields with large dark purple blotches, podia red (Humphreys, 1981). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212395 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiomastix koehleri Devaney, 1977. 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=212395 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||
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