Ophiuroidea taxon details

Ophiarachna incrassata (Lamarck, 1816)

213207  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213207)

accepted
Species
Ophiocoma ocellata v. Martens, 1867 · unaccepted (synonym acc. to H.L. Clark (1915))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Ophiura incrassata Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1816). Ordre Second. Radiaires Échinodermes. <em>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres.</em> 2, 522-568., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13299296 [details]   
Description Description: arm length up to 20 cm, disc diameter to 5 cm. Colour conspicuously green with yellow markings and dark-ringed...  
Description Description: arm length up to 20 cm, disc diameter to 5 cm. Colour conspicuously green with yellow markings and dark-ringed white spots. Habitat: among coral bases and rubble.
General distribution: tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, littoral waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995); WIO, Red Sea and W Pacific (Richmond, 1998).
Also distributed in Java in Ljungman (1866); Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2024). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiarachna incrassata (Lamarck, 1816). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213207 on 2024-03-28
Date
action
by
1997-02-03 23:00:00Z
created
2000-09-20 08:24:09Z
changed
Garcia, Maria
2007-07-18 12:17:12Z
checked

original description  (of Ophiocoma ocellata v. Martens, 1867) Martens, E. von. (1867). Über vier neue Schlangensterne (Ophiuren) des Kgl. zoologischen Museums. <em>Monatsberichte der deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin.</em> 1867: 345-348. [details]   

original description  (of Ophiura incrassata Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1816). Ordre Second. Radiaires Échinodermes. <em>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres.</em> 2, 522-568., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13299296 [details]   

basis of record Clark, A. M.; Rowe, F. W. E. (1971). Monograph of shallow-water indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. <em>Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History).</em> 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]   

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Description Description: arm length up to 20 cm, disc diameter to 5 cm. Colour conspicuously green with yellow markings and dark-ringed white spots. Habitat: among coral bases and rubble.
General distribution: tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, littoral waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995); WIO, Red Sea and W Pacific (Richmond, 1998).
Also distributed in Java in Ljungman (1866); Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Remark Type data: status undetermined Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France). Type locality: Java, Indonesia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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Japanese オオクモヒトデ  [details]

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