Ophiactis delagoa J.B. Balinsky, 1957 
AphiaID: 212326

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Ophiactidae (Family) > Ophiactis (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Ophiactis Lütken, 1856
Sources		original description: Balinsky, J.B. (1957). The Ophiuroidea of Inhaca Island. Ann. Natal Mus. 14: 1-33. (look up in IMIS) [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]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details]
Links		To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Notes		Description: Coloration: aboral disc colour green to brownish, with some variegation, with a dark spot near the distal end of each radial shield; oral disc colour dirty grey. Description: five arms, three to four times the disc diameter. Disc scales naked (with pointed spinelets in Sastry (1995)). Radial shields half of the disc radius or less, not contiguously in contact. Oral shields broader than long, rounded spear-head, with a distal lobe. Adoral plates meet radially. Single small oral papillae (two distal lateral papillae, no infradental papillae in Sastry (1995)). Aboral arm plates twice as broad as long, fan-shaped, rounded lateral angles. Oral arm plates broader than long, bell-shaped, in contact with the next plate. Aboral side of the arms cross-banded every few segments, oral side lighter, sometimes somewhat banded. One large oval tentacle scale. Four arm spines, but five on the more proximal arm segments in large specimens, as long as the segment. Habitat: among blocks of dead coral at the base of reefs, in about 30 ft. of water. (Balinsky, 1957); fine sandy habitats (Sastry, 1995). Also distributed in India (West Bengal) and Mozambique (Sastry, 1995). [details] Type locality: Type locality: Inhaca, Delagoa Bay, 9 m. In family 'Amphiuridae' in Kalk (1958). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212326
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-04-01 13:22:26Z   created   Onyango, Eunice 2000-09-27 07:27:35Z   changed   Garcia, Maria 2007-07-18 12:17:12Z   checked   Stöhr, Sabine
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		Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiactis delagoa J.B. Balinsky, 1957. 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=212326 on 2013-05-20