WoRMS name details

Ophiopezella decorata Mortensen, 1933

213214  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213214)

 unaccepted (synonym acc. to A.M. Clark (1968))
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Mortensen, T. (1933). Echinoderms of South Africa (Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea) Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening 93.</em> 65: 215-400. [details]   
Note Durban.  
From other sources
Type locality Durban. [details]
Description Colour in life: disc light greyish-brown, arms with darker bands. Description: the largest specimens agree with Mortensen's...  
Description Colour in life: disc light greyish-brown, arms with darker bands. Description: the largest specimens agree with Mortensen's description; nine cross-bands on the arms; eight to ten oral papillae, the outermost being minute.
The smaller specimens are covered by granules; the arms bear only two or three cross-bands; only eight arm spines basally, even fewer distally. Oral shields vary in length, being rather longer than broad in the larger specimens (Balinsky, 1957).
Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details]
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2024). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiopezella decorata Mortensen, 1933. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213214 on 2024-03-19
Date
action
by
1999-06-24 23:12:29Z
created
2000-09-14 06:49:43Z
changed
Garcia, Maria
2007-07-18 12:17:12Z
checked
2011-07-06 07:33:22Z
changed

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original description Mortensen, T. (1933). Echinoderms of South Africa (Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea) Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening 93.</em> 65: 215-400. [details]   

source of synonymy Clark, A. M. (1968). Notes on some tropical indo-pacific ophiotrichids and ophiodermatids (Ophiuroidea). <em>Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology.</em> 16(7): 277-322, 1pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/63833#/summary [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Description Colour in life: disc light greyish-brown, arms with darker bands. Description: the largest specimens agree with Mortensen's description; nine cross-bands on the arms; eight to ten oral papillae, the outermost being minute.
The smaller specimens are covered by granules; the arms bear only two or three cross-bands; only eight arm spines basally, even fewer distally. Oral shields vary in length, being rather longer than broad in the larger specimens (Balinsky, 1957).
Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details]

Type locality Durban. [details]