WoRMS taxon details
Ophiothela danae Verrill, 1869
AphiaID: 213399
AphiaID: 213399
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Ophiotrichidae (Family) > Ophiothela (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Ophiothela Verrill, 1867 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ophiothela caerulea H.L. Clark, 1915 Ophiothela coerulea H.l. Clark, 1915 Ophiothela danae involuta Koehler, 1898 (subspecies not accepted) Ophiothela dividua von Martens, 1879 Ophiothela hadra H.L. Clark, 1915 Ophiothela involuta Koehler, 1898 Ophiothela isidicola Lütken, 1872 Ophiothela verrilli Duncan, 1879 Ophiothrix danae (Koehler, 1898) (synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Verrill, A.E. 1869. New and imperfectly known Echinoderms and Corals. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 12, 381-391. [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] basis of record: Jangoux, M & C. Massin. (1986). Catalogue commenté des types d'Echinodermes actuels conservé dans les collections nationales belges, Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. : Biologie (56): 83-97 [details] from synonym: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: von Martens, E. 1879. Vorzeigung eines eigenthümlichen sechsarmigen Schlangensterns, Ophiothela dividua, sp.n. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 1879, 127-130. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Lütken, C.F. 1872. Ophiuridarum novarum vel minus cognitarum descriptiones nonnullae. [Beskrivelse af nogle nye eller mindre bekjerdte Slangestjernerne] Med nogle Bemaerkninger om Selvdelingen hos Straaldyrene. Overs. K. danske Vidensk. Selsk. Forh., 77, 75-158, 2 pls. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Duncan, P.M. 1879. On some Ophiuroidea from the Korean Seas. Journal of the Linnean Society, 14(77), 445-482. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Koehler, R. 1898. Echinoides et Ophiures provenant des campagnes du yacht l'Hirondelle (Golfe de Gascogne, Acores, Terre-Nueve). Résultats des Campagnes scientifiques par Prince Albert I, Monaco, 12, 1-78, 9 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18768#page/7/mode/1up [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Koehler, R. 1898. Echinoderms recueillis par l'Investigator dans l'Ocean Indien, II les Opiures littorales. Bulletin scientifique de la France et de la Belgique, 31, 55-126, pl. 2-5. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark, H.L. (1915). Catalogue of Recent ophiurans. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. 25(4): 163-376, 20 pls. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Ophiothela danae involuta Koehler, 1898 accepted as Ophiothela danae Verrill, 1869 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea [details] South Africa (country) [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: colour dimorphism, disc uniformly bright orange or with radial shields white, dorsal arm surface orange near disc and then fading to white towards tips, arms ventrally off white, some arms dorsally pale throughout others purple with purple and white banded arms, purple bands wider (2-5 segments) than white bands (1-2 segments). Humphreys, 1981. Arm length to 2 cm, disc diameter 3-4 mm. Very small, and usually with 6 flexible arms. Colour variable depending on substrate, typically blue with white pattern or completely yellow. Habitat; often wrapped around gorgonians or soft corals on shallow reefs and deeper. Also distributed in SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, W India, Pakistan, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); India (Sastry, 1996). General distribution: tropical, temperate, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-80 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1998). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Syntypes in Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) No.2492 (9 specimens) and No. 2631., Type locality: Fiji Is. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213399 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiothela danae Verrill, 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=213399 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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