WoRMS taxon details
Ophiarachnella gorgonia (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
AphiaID: 213218
AphiaID: 213218
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Ophiodermatina (Infraorder) > Ophiodermatidae (Family) > Ophiarachninae (Subfamily) > Ophiarachnella (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Ophiarachnella Ljungman, 1872 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ophiarachna gorgonia Müller & Troschel, 1842 Pectinura gorgonia (Müller & Troschel, 1842) Pectinura marmorata Lyman, 1874 Pectinura megaloplax Bell, 1884 Pectinura venusta de Loriol, 1893 | |||||||||||||
| 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: Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Ljungman, A. (1867). Ophiuroidea viventia huc usque cognita enumerat. Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar 23(9): 303-336. [details] from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [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] from synonym: Bell, F.J. 1884. Echinodermata. Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. “Alert”, 1881-2, 117-177, 509-512, pls 8-17 & 45. London [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Lyman, T. (1874). Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae: new and old, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., Vol. 3: 221-272, 7 pls (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark H.L. (1909). Notes on some Australian and Indo-Pacific echinoderms. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 52: 107-135. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Müller, J.H.; Troschel, F.H. 1842. System der Asteriden. , 1-134. Vieweg: Braunschweig [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (18 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: disc off-white but dominated by almost black markings, one major one along each pair of radial shields and 1-3 minor marks inter-radially, arms off-white with dark brown bands 1-3 segments wide both above and below, ventral surface of arms not darker distally as at Aldabra (Sloan et al., 1979). Humphreys 1981 <213>. Description: arm length to 7.5 cm, disc diameter to 1.5 cm. Disc scales concealed by granules with only the naked radial shields (large and oval) exposed. Colour pattern distinctive, including white, red, orange and green banding on arms, and green and white disc. Habitat: under coral in lagoons and shallow reef areas. Also distributed in Gilbert Islands, Guam (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). General distribution: from East Africa to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); WIO to W Pacific (Richmond, 1998); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-39 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Holotype: Holotype (probable) Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France). Type locality: unknown (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213218 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiarachnella gorgonia (Müller & Troschel, 1842). 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=213218 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||
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