WoRMS taxon details
Ophiothrix echinotecta Balinsky, 1957
AphiaID: 212400
AphiaID: 212400
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Ophiotrichidae (Family) > Ophiothrix (Genus) |
| Status | alternate representation | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Ophiothrix (Ophiothrix) echinotecta Balinsky, 1957 | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Ophiothrix Müller & Troschel, 1840 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Balinsky, J.B. (1957). The Ophiuroidea of Inhaca Island. Ann. Natal Mus. 14: 1-33. (look up in IMIS) [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] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | East Africa [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Mozambique [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Arms five to eight times the disc diameter. Disc scales covered by spines, near the small radial shields the spines are less dense. Oral shields very broad, somewhat trilobed, prowimal rounded edge separating broadly the two adoral plates. Oral arm plates somewhat broader than long, basal and distal edges straight, lateral ones convex. Single tentacle scale, with one or two points on the tip. Arms colour dark or light green and white; with darker green bands across each aboral arm plate separated by a light area from an even darker narrow band across the juncture of two aboral arm plates. Habitat: hiding under sea urchins in rock hollows, coral reefs. (Balinsky, 1957). General distribution: East Africa (Tortonese, 1980). [details] Remark: In Subgenus Ophiothrix Müller & Troschel, 1840. Type locality: Inhaca I., Delagoa Bay, intertidal. Holotype in South African Museum, Cape Town (South Africa) (Balinsky, 1957). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212400 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiothrix echinotecta Balinsky, 1957. 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=212400 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||||||||
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