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Ophiothrix picturatus de Loriol, 1893 
AphiaID: 212417

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Ophiotrichidae (Family) > Ophiothrix (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Macrophiothrix longipeda (Lamarck, 1816)
Rank Species
Parent Ophiothrix Müller & Troschel, 1840
Sources  original description: Loriol, P. de. 1893. Catalogue raisonné des Echinodermes recueillis par M.V. de Robillard à l'Ile Maurice. III. Ophiurides et Astrophytides. Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. nat. Gèneve, 32(3), 1-63, pls 23-25. [details]

source of synonymy: Clark, A.M. (1968). Notes on some tropical Indo-Pacific ophiotrichids and ophiodermatids (Ophiuroidea). Bull. Br. Mus (nat. Hist) 16(7): 276-322. [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, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Mascarene Basin [details]
Note  Spelling: As O. picturata in Clark & Rowe (1971).
Holotype Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Genève (Switzerland) No. 780/66. Type locality: Mauritius (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212417
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-04-01 13:22:26Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2000-09-20 08:24:09Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2007-08-27 13:50:37Z  checked  Stöhr, Sabine
  
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  Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiothrix picturatus de Loriol, 1893. 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=212417 on 2013-05-22
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