Ophiocoma pusilla (Brock, 1888) 
AphiaID: 212382

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

Status		accepted
Rank		Species
Parent		Ophiocoma L. Agassiz, 1836
Orig. name		Ophiomastix pusilla Brock, 1888
Synonymised names		Ophiocoma latilanxa Murakami, 1943 Ophiomastix pusilla Brock, 1888
Sources		basis of record Clark, A. M.; Rowe, F. W. E. (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 Clark, A.M. & Courtman-Stock, J. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details] original description (of Ophiomastix pusilla Brock, 1888) Brock, J. (1888). Die Ophiuridenfauna des indischen Archipels. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie. 47, 465-539. [details] basis of record (of Ophiocoma latilanxa Murakami, 1943) Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] original description (of Ophiocoma latilanxa Murakami, 1943) Murakami, S. (1943). Report on the Ophiurans of Palao, Caroline Islands. Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Kyusyu Imperial University. 159-204, 205-222, 223-234. [details] [show all]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		From other sources Federal Republic of Somalia Somalia [details] Indian Ocean Aldabra [details] West Indian Ocean [details] Kenya Kenya [details] Madagascar Madagascar [details] Mozambique Mozambique [details] Red Sea Red Sea [details] Seychelles Seychelles [details] Tanzania Tanzania [details]  Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien
Links		To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)  To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)  To Encyclopedia of Life  To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (29 records)
Attributes		Functional group benthos » Stage adult (inherited from Ophiuroidea) [details] Supporting structure & enclosure Endoskeleton » Structure Solid » Composition Calcareous > High-magnesium calcite (inherited from Echinodermata) [details]
Notes		From other sources Description Colour in life: disc uniform dark brown, occasionally spotted with white-rimmed dark spots, arms dark brown with lighter banding, ventrally overall red-brown (Sloan et al., 1979). Oral shields white with brown spots; arms variegated above and below, light and dark segmens often alternating; arm spines with 1-2 wide brown rings, never clavate, number very variable (Tortonese, 1980). Also distributed in East Indies (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); East Indies, Polynesia and Hawaii (Tortonese, 1980). Ecology: benthic, inshore. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, littoral waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark Lectotype Museum für Naturkunde an der Universität Humbolt zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany) 5429, paralectotype Museum für Naturkunde an der Universität Humbolt zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany) 4777. Type locality: Amboina, Indonesia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212382
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-04-01 13:22:26Z   created   Onyango, Eunice 2000-09-20 08:24:09Z   changed   Garcia, Maria 2007-07-18 12:17:12Z   checked   Stöhr, Sabine
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		Citation: Stöhr, S. (2007). Ophiocoma pusilla (Brock, 1888). In: Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T. & Thuy, B. (Eds) (2017). World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed at http://www.marinespecies.org/ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212382 on 2017-09-22