WoRMS taxon details
Ophiarachna affinis Lütken, 1869
AphiaID: 213208
AphiaID: 213208
| 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 |
Ophiarachna clavigera Brock, 1888 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Lütken, C.F. 1869. Additamenta ad historiam Ophiuridarum. Tredie Afdelning. Det kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskaps Skrifter. 5 Raekke, Naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk Afdelning, 8, 20-109. [details] 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] from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Brock, J. 1888. Die Ophiuridenfauna des indischen Archipels. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 47, 465-539. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: strongly resembling that of Ophiocoma doederleini, basically mid-grey, disc light grey with widely spaced black spots and a pale ramifying linear pattern, arms mid-grey with white bands, arms spines annulated white and grey, including the elongated ventralmost spines, ventrally mid-grey, oral shields white with irregular grey markings (Sloan et al., 1979). Description: arm length to 9 cm, disc diameter to 2.5 cm. Disc brown to grey, mottled with double spots. Arms mottled darker and lighter brown to grey with darker bands. Habitat: among coral rubble. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range to 25 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); WIO, Red Sea to W Pacific (Richmond, 1998). Also distributed in East Indies, Philippine and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Syntypes Zoologisches Museum für Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany) E.4073 (1 specimen). Type locality: Fiji Ils. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213208 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiarachna affinis Lütken, 1869. 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=213208 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||||||||
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