WoRMS taxon details
Ophiochaeta hirsuta Lütken, 1869
AphiaID: 213455
AphiaID: 213455
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Ophiodermatina (Infraorder) > Ophiodermatidae (Family) > Ophiochaeta (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Ophiochaeta Lütken, 1869 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Ophiochaeta Lütken, 1869 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ophiochaeta boschmai A.H. Clark, 1964 | |||||||||||||
| 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] basis of record: Sloan, N.A., A.M. Clark & J.D. Taylor (1979). The Echinoderms of Aldabra and their habitats. Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Zool.) 37 (2): 81- 128. [details] basis of record: Cherbonnier, G. & A. Guille (1978). Echinodermes: Ophiurides. Faune de Madagascar. No 48: iv +272pp. [details] original description (from synonym): Clark, A.H. (1964). Description of two new species of Ophiuroidea collected during the Snellius expedition. Zool. Meded. Leiden 39: 385-390. [details] [view taxon] source of synonymy (from synonym): Price A.R.G. & F.W.E. Rowe (1996). Indian Ocean echinoderms collected during the Sinbad Voyage (1980-81): 3. Ophiuroidea and Echinoidea. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Lond. (Zool.) 62(2): 71-82 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Red Sea [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: uniform grey-brown with pale brown banding on the arms, ventrally off-white overall (Sloan et al., 1979. Description: arm length to 18 mm, disc diameter to 4.5 mm. Small, delicate species with both dorsal and ventral surfaces of the disc covered with spines, which may be replaced or interspersed with flat-topped granules. Colour grey to brown with arms banded. Habitat: among coral branches or under coral. General distribution: tropical, west-central Pacific, Indo-Malayan Region, western Indian Ocean, depth range 0-26 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); WIO, Red Sea to W Pacific (Richmond, 1998). Also distributed in South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Type data: status undetermined ?Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen (Denmark). Type locality: Fiji Ils, see Clark (1915) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213455 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiochaeta hirsuta 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=213455 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||||||||
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