Ophiocoma dentata Müller & Troschel, 1842 
AphiaID: 212381

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Ophiocomidae (Family) > Ophiocominae (Subfamily) > Ophiocoma (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Ophiocoma L. Agassiz, 1835
Synonymised taxa		Ophiocoma brevipes dentata (H.L. Clark, 1921) Ophiocoma brevipes doederleini (H.L. Clark, 1921) Ophiocoma brevipes var. insularia Lyman, 1862 Ophiocoma brevipes var. variegata Smith, 1876 Ophiocoma insularia Lyman, 1862 Ophiocoma marmorata Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1887 Ophiocoma ternispina von Martens, 1870 Ophiocoma variegata E. A. Smith, 1876
Sources		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] basis of record: Devaney, D.M. (1970). Studies on ophiocomid brittlestars. I. A new genus (Clarkcoma) of Ophiocominae with a re-evaluation of the genus Ophiocoma. Smithson. Contr. Zool. 51: 1-41. [details] basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] original description (from synonym): Martens, E. v. (1870). Die Ophiuriden des indischen Oceans. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 36: 244-262. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Lyman, T. 1862. Descriptions of new Ophiuridae. Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 8, 75-86. [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Marktanner-Turneretscher, G. 1887. Beschreibung neuer Ophiuriden und Bemerkungen zu bekannten. Annalen des k.k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, 2(4), 291-316. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Smith, E.A. 1876. Descriptions of two new species of Ophiocoma. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 4, 18(1), 39-40. [details] [view taxon]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea [details] West Indian Ocean [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (26 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Notes		Description: Colour: disc black or dark brown, aboral arm plates with a light border along the edges and sometimes a light central region. Description: disc scales with rounded granules, covering the radial shields. Aboral arm plates broader than long, lateral angles rounded. Five arm spines, flat, second from above longer than the breadth of the segment. Also distributed in Maldive area, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971).; Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). General distribution: tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-35 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands in Sastry (1991). [details] Holotype: Holotype in Museum für Naturkunde an der Universität Humbolt zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany). Type locality: unknown (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212381
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-02-03 23:00:00Z   created   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2000-09-29 13:20:33Z   changed   Garcia, Maria 2007-07-18 12:17:12Z   checked   Stöhr, Sabine
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		Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiocoma dentata 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=212381 on 2013-06-18