WoRMS taxon details
Ophiothrix trilineata Lütken, 1869
AphiaID: 212416
AphiaID: 212416
| 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) trilineata Lütken, 1869 | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Ophiothrix Müller & Troschel, 1840 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Lütken, C.F. 1869. Additamenta ad historiam Ophiuridarum. Tredie Afdelning. Det kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskaps Skrifter. 5 Raekke, Naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk Afdelning, 8, 20-109. [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: Balinsky, J.B. (1957). The Ophiuroidea of Inhaca Island. Ann. Natal Mus. 14: 1-33. (look up in IMIS) [details] source of synonymy: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Comores [details] East Africa [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins) | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: disc dark uniformly blue; arms blue or blue green with fine characteristic median lines alternating dark blue and white, which extend on the aboral side of the disc between the radial shields; arm spines glassy, reddish and often with a dark line, ventrally white overall. Arm length to 4 cm, disc diameter to 5 mm. Disc scales covered by scattered spinelets. Radial shields naked. Aboral arm plates as wide as long, distal edge convex, median light coloured longitudinal line bordered by darker areas on either side and two more lighter lines bordered by darker areas on either side. Oral arm plates broader than long, distal side convex. Six to eigth arm spines, no more than 3-4 times the length of the segment, second one from obove the longest. Habitat: crevices around hard corals and on soft corals. Also distributed in Gilbert Islands, Tuamotus (Clark, 1954); Maldive area, Ceylon, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995), Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991). General distribution:from the Red Sea and East Africa to the western Pacific (Tortonese, 1980); W Indian Ocean (Richmond, 1998); tropical, Indo-west-central pacific Ocean, depth range 0-30 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); East coast of Africa to western Pacific Ocean (Sastry, 1991). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: In Subgenus Ophiothrix Müller & Troschel, 1840 Richmond, 1997. Type locality: Samoa. Holotype (probable) Zoologisches Museum für Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany) E.2221 (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212416 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiothrix trilineata Lütken, 1869. 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=212416 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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