Ophiuroidea taxon details
Amphiura africana J.B. Balinsky, 1957 AphiaID: 212362
| Status | | alternate representation |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Accepted name | | Amphiura (Fellaria) africana (J.B. Balinsky, 1957) |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Amphiura Forbes, 1843 |
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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. (1980). Some Ophiuroidea from the Seychelles islands and Inhaca, Mozambique. Rev. Zool. Afr. 94(3): 533-558. (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]
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Distribution | | Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
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| Note | |
Remark: In Subgenus Fellaria A.M. Clark, 1970. Type locality: Inhaca I, Delagoa Bay. Possibly a junior synonym of Amphiura heptacanta (Mortensen, 1940) from the northern Gulf of Oman (Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976. [details]
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212362 |
Taxonomic
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| | | Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Amphiura africana 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=212362 on 2013-05-21 |
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