WoRMS taxon details
Ophiothrix nereidina (Lamarck, 1816)
AphiaID: 212424
AphiaID: 212424
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Ophiotrichidae (Family) > Ophiothrix (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (synonym) | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Macrophiothrix nereidina (Lamarck, 1816) | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Ophiothrix Müller & Troschel, 1840 | ||||||||||||||||
| Source |
context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Somalia [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Link | To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
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] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212424 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiothrix nereidina (Lamarck, 1816). 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=212424 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||||||||
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