Ophiuroidea taxon details
Ophiopeza fallax Lütken, 1869 (non Peters, 1851) AphiaID: 212323
| Status | |  unaccepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Accepted name | | Ophiopeza spinosa (Ljungman, 1867) |
| Rank | | Species |
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Ophiopeza Peters, 1851
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| Parent | | Ophiopeza Peters, 1851 |
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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: Clark H.L. (1909). Notes on some Australian and Indo-Pacific echinoderms. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 52: 107-135. [details]
basis of record: Clark, A.M. (1968). Notes on some tropical Indo-Pacific ophiotrichids and ophiodermatids (Ophiuroidea). Bull. Br. Mus (nat. Hist) 16(7): 276-322. [details]
source of synonymy: Liao, Yulin. 2004. Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea. Fauna Sinica, 40, 1-305. pl. I-VI. Science Press: Beijing
page(s): 341 [details]
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Distribution | | Aldabra [details]
Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mozambique [details]
Red Sea [details]
Somalia [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Tanzania [details]
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications)
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| Notes | |
Description: Colour in life: mostly agrees with Sloan et al. 1979 but some lateral interradial areas red-brown and bands of this colour on the arms may extend over three segments (Humphreys, 1981). Description: arm length to 5 cm, disc diameter to 1.5 cm. Disc grey, with some marginal plates lacking granules; arms banded with red. In Tortonese (1980): disc with granules; 8-10 oral papillae each side; 11 arm spines, less than half the segment length; two tentacle scales, the outer one smaller.
Habitat: shallow rubble areas.
General distribution: from the Red Sea to Philippines (Tortonese, 1980); WIO, Red Sea to W Pacific (Richmond, 1998).
Also distributed in Persian Gulf, W India, Pakistan, Ceylon, East Indies and Philippine (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details]
Type locality: Type locality: Querimba, Northern Mozambique.
Type specie of the genus Ophiopeza Peters, 1851 (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212323 |
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| | | Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiopeza fallax Lütken, 1869 (non Peters, 1851). In: Stöhr, S. & O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013) World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: Stöhr, S. & O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013) World Ophiuroidea database at http://www.marinespecies.org/ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212323 on 2013-05-26 |
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