WoRMS taxon details
Macrophiothrix longipeda (Lamarck, 1816)
AphiaID: 213195
AphiaID: 213195
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Ophiotrichidae (Family) > Macrophiothrix (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Macrophiothrix H.L. Clark, 1938 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Macrophiothrix picturata (de Loriol, 1893) Ophiothrix longipeda (Lamarck, 1816) Ophiothrix microplax Bell, 1884 Ophiothrix picturatus de Loriol, 1893 Ophiothrix punctolimbata von Martens, 1870 Ophiura longipeda Lamarck, 1816 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
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: Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details] basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Lamarck, J.B. de. 1816. Ordre Second. Radiaires Échinodermes. Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, 2, 522-568. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Martens, E. v. (1870). Die Ophiuriden des indischen Oceans. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 36: 244-262. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark, A.M. (1968). Notes on some tropical Indo-Pacific ophiotrichids and ophiodermatids (Ophiuroidea). Bull. Br. Mus (nat. Hist) 16(7): 276-322. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] 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 | Aldabra [details] Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] South Africa (country) (probably not valid) [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: disc colour bluish with dark blue spots, spotted radial shields, ventrally lighter blue with dark spots (Sloan et al., 1979. Arms banded in grey and pale blue. Description: Arm length to 80 cm (about 20 times disc diameter), disc diameter 1-4 cm. Disc scales covered by thorny stumps. Radial shields with rugose granule-like stumps. Aboral arm plates more than twice as broad as long, distal edge with a straight median region, marked laterodistal angles, broadest distally. Oral arm plates octogonal, distal edge straight. Up to ten thorny arm spines, lowest one comb-like. Habitat: lower eulittoral, sublittoral, under coral boulders or in burrow or a crevice. Also distributed in Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal , East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). General distribution: Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1998), depth range 0-72 m.; east coast of Africa to western Pacific Ocean (Sastry, 1991); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-72 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Neotype U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C. (USA) No. 4291. Type locality: 'L'Ocean austral, pres de l'Ile de France [Mauritius]' (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213195 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Macrophiothrix longipeda (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=213195 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||
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