Ophiuroidea taxon details
Ophiocoma erinaceus Müller & Troschel, 1842 AphiaID: 212371
| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Ophiocoma L. Agassiz, 1835 |
Synonymised
taxa | |
Ophiocoma similanensis Bussarawit & Rowe, 1985 (junior synonym)
Ophiocoma tartarea Lyman, 1862
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original description: Müller, J.H.; Troschel, F.H. 1842. System der Asteriden. , 1-134. Vieweg: Braunschweig [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]
additional source: Stöhr, S. 2011. New records and new species of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from Lifou, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. Zootaxa 3089: 1-50., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt03089p050.pdf [details]
status source: Benavides-Serrato, M. & O'Hara, T.D. (2008). A new species in the Ophiocoma erinaceus complex from the South-west Pacific Ocean (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Ophiocomidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65: 51-56. [details]
from synonym: 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] [view taxon]
from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Lyman, T. 1862. Descriptions of new Ophiuridae. Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 8, 75-86. [details] [view taxon]
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Distribution | | Aldabra [details]
Chagos [details]
Comores [details]
Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
Kenya [details]
Lifou [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique [details]
Red Sea [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Tanzania [details]
West Indian Ocean [details]
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| Specimens | |
Syntype: ZMB Ech 921, locality Red Sea [details]
Syntype: ZMB Ech 922, locality Red Sea [details]
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| Notes | |
Description: Colour in life: all black, some with white trim to ventral arm plates, most with bright orange podia (Humphreys, 1981). Very common. Description: arm length to 12 cm, disc diameter to 20 mm. Distinctive uniformly black body with long, thick spines on arms, shorter towards the tips. Orange tube-feet. Disc scales covered by rounded granules, extending into a V-shaped interradial area on the ventral side of the disc. Aboral arm plates broader than long, narrower on one side. Arm spines alternating three and four for greater part of the arm length.
Habitat: sand and rubble in shallow areas and shallow sublittoral among coral; coral reef, beacon reef (Balinsky, 1957).
Also distributed in Gilbert Islands, Tuamotus, Saipan (Clark, 1954); SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippie, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995)); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991).
General distribution: from the Red Sea to Hawaii and SE Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); WIO, Red Sea to W Pacific (Richmond, 1998); tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-27 m. (Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995)); East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands in Sastry (1991).
Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Remark: Treated as a synonym of O. scolopendrina (Lamarck) in Ludwig (1899) and by von Martens (1870) and by Marktanner-Turneretscher (1867) treated as a synonym of O. schoenleinii. Also recorded from 'Coin Peros' by Bell (1909) - locality can't be traced.
Type locality: 'Red Sea and Indian Ocean'. Syntypes (probable) Museum für Naturkunde an der Universität Humbolt zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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Ophiocoma erinaceus
added on 2011-11-14 - author: Stöhr, Sabine
qualitystatus: checked by Stöhr, Sabine on 2011-11-14 14:33:48 |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212371 |
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| | | Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiocoma erinaceus Müller & Troschel, 1842. 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=212371 on 2013-05-24 |
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