Amphiura inhacensis J.B. Balinsky, 1957 
AphiaID: 212358

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

Status		unaccepted (synonym, alternate representation)
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name		Amphiura (Amphiura) dejectoides H.L. Clark, 1939
Rank		Species
Parent		Amphiura Forbes, 1843
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: 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]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Aldabra [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] Seychelles [details]
Notes		Description: Disc covered by very fine scales. Radial shields three times as long as broad, distally contiguous. Oral shields slightly broader than long, rounded-rhomboidal. Adoral plates don't meet in anyway. Aboral arm plates broader than long, oval to fan-shaped, distal side convex and in contact with the next plate. Oral arm plates about as broad as long, rounded-pentagonal, distal side concave. One tentacle scale. Five (sometimes six on the proximal segments) pointed arm spines, the lowest one slightly the longest, length more than an arm segment. Habitat: coral reef (Balinsky, 1957). [details] Type locality: Type locality: Inhaca I, Delagoa Bay. Holotype in South African Museum, Cape Town. [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212358
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-02-03 23:00:00Z   created   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2000-09-27 07:27:35Z   changed   Garcia, Maria 2007-08-27 13:50:37Z   checked   Stöhr, Sabine 2009-06-24 08:38:00Z   changed   Stöhr, Sabine
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		Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Amphiura inhacensis 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=212358 on 2013-05-21