Ophiura albida Forbes, 1839 
AphiaID: 124913

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Echinodermata > Asterozoa > Ophiuroidea > Ophiurida > Ophiurina > Chilophiurina > Ophiuridae > Ophiurinae > Ophiura

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Ophiura Lamarck, 1801
Sources		original description: Forbes, E. 1839. On the Asteriadae of the Irish Sea. Memoirs of the Wernerian Society, 8, 1-114. [details] basis of record: Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 336-351 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Southward, E.C.; Campbell, A.C. (2006). [Echinoderms: keys and notes for the identification of British species]. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 56. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury, UK. ISBN 1-85153-269-2. 272 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS) [details] context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Dutch kleine slangster  [details] English brittlestar  [details] English Serpent's table brittlestar  [details] French ophiure blanche  [details] German gemeiner Schlangenstern  [details] German Heller Schlangenstern  [details] Norwegian Bokmål hvitflekket slangestjerne  [details] Norwegian Nynorsk kvitflekket slangestjerne  [details] Swedish vitfläckig fransormstjärna  [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Azores [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Birkenfels (shipwreck) [details] British Isles [details] Calais [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Faroe-Shetland Channel [details] French Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details] French Exclusive Economic Zone [Mediterranean part] [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Helgoland [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Lossini [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] North Coast of Norway [details] North East Atlantic [details] North Sea [details] Oosterschelde [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wadden Sea [details] Wimereux [details]
Feedingtypes		omnivore [details] predator [details] scavenger [details]
Host of		Thespesiopsyllus paradoxus (Sars G.O., 1913) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links		BIOTIC Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK PlanktonNet Image To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (110 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 26 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS
Images		Picture of Ophiura albida added on 2003-04-29 - author: van der Hoek, J. qualitystatus: checked by Stöhr, Sabine on 2012-08-27 14:19:04 Ophiura albida Forbes, 1839 added on 2006-02-10 - author: Hans Hillewaert qualitystatus: checked by Stöhr, Sabine on 2012-08-27 14:19:44 Ophiura albida Forbes, 1839 added on 2006-08-10 - author: IMARES () qualitystatus: checked by Stöhr, Sabine on 2012-09-21 09:38:52 Ophiura albida Forbes, 1839 added on 2006-08-10 - author: IMARES () qualitystatus: checked by Stöhr, Sabine on 2012-09-21 09:37:43 Ophiura albida Forbes, 1839 added on 2006-08-10 - author: IMARES () qualitystatus: checked by Stöhr, Sabine on 2012-09-21 09:37:57 PlanktonNet Image
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124913
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   Hansson, Hans 2007-07-18 12:17:12Z   checked   Stöhr, Sabine 2011-07-13 12:05:25Z   changed   Stöhr, Sabine
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		Citation: Stöhr, S.; Hansson, H. (2013). Ophiura albida Forbes, 1839. In: Stöhr, S., O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013). World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010) The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=124913 on 2013-05-25
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