WoRMS taxon details
Ophiarachna incrassata (Lamarck, 1816)
AphiaID: 213207
AphiaID: 213207
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Ophiodermatina (Infraorder) > Ophiodermatidae (Family) > Ophiarachninae (Subfamily) > Ophiarachna (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Ophiarachna Müller & Troschel, 1842 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ophiocoma ocellata v. Martens, 1867 (synonym acc. to H.L. Clark (1915)) Ophiura incrassata 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 (from synonym): Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Martens von, E. 1867. Über vier neue Schlangensterne (Ophiuren) des Kgl. zoologischen Museums. Monatsberichte der deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, 1867, 345-348. [details] [view taxon] source of synonymy (from synonym): Clark, H.L. (1915). Catalogue of Recent ophiurans. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. 25(4): 163-376, 20 pls. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Lamarck, J.B. de. 1816. Ordre Second. Radiaires Échinodermes. Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, 2, 522-568. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (48 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Description: arm length up to 20 cm, disc diameter to 5 cm. Colour conspicuously green with yellow markings and dark-ringed white spots. Habitat: among coral bases and rubble. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, littoral waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995); WIO, Red Sea and W Pacific (Richmond, 1998). Also distributed in Java in Ljungman (1866); Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Type data: status undetermined Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France). Type locality: Java, Indonesia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213207 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiarachna incrassata (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=213207 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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