WoRMS name details
Ophiothrix nereidina (Lamarck, 1816)
212424 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212424)
unaccepted (synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Ophiura nereidina Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1816). Ordre Second. Radiaires Échinodermes. <em>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres.</em> 2, 522-568., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13299296 [details]
Description Colour: Disc scales and radial shields blue with white border. Description: dorsal disc scales naked; ventral and marginally,...
Description Colour: Disc scales and radial shields blue with white border. Description: dorsal disc scales naked; ventral and marginally, disc with stumps. Aboral arm plates twice as broad as long, a transverse median blue line bordered by white lines. Oral arm plates with a median blue longitudinal line with lateral pale lines. Arm spines as long as the bredth of the segment, second or third from above the longest (Sastry, 1997).
Also distributed in Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991); Andaman Is. (Sastry, 1997).
General distribution: from East Africa to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); East coast of Africa to South Pacific Islands (Sastry, 1991). [details]
Also distributed in Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991); Andaman Is. (Sastry, 1997).
General distribution: from East Africa to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); East coast of Africa to South Pacific Islands (Sastry, 1991). [details]
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2024). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiothrix nereidina (Lamarck, 1816). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212424 on 2024-04-24
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Garcia, Maria
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original description
(of Ophiura nereidina Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1816). Ordre Second. Radiaires Échinodermes. <em>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres.</em> 2, 522-568., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13299296 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From other sources
Description Colour: Disc scales and radial shields blue with white border. Description: dorsal disc scales naked; ventral and marginally, disc with stumps. Aboral arm plates twice as broad as long, a transverse median blue line bordered by white lines. Oral arm plates with a median blue longitudinal line with lateral pale lines. Arm spines as long as the bredth of the segment, second or third from above the longest (Sastry, 1997).Also distributed in Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991); Andaman Is. (Sastry, 1997).
General distribution: from East Africa to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); East coast of Africa to South Pacific Islands (Sastry, 1991). [details]
Remark In Subgenus (Keystonea) A.M. Clark, 1967 (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details]
