Ophiarthrum elegans Peters, 1851 
AphiaID: 212388

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

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Ophiarthrum Peters, 1851
Synonymised taxa		Ophiarthrum elegans unicolor H.L. Clark, 1932
Sources		original description: Peters, W. 1851. Übersicht der an der Küste von Mossambique eingesammelten Ophiuren, unter denen sich zwei neue Gattungen befinden. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1851, 463-466. [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] from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark, H.L. 1932. Echinodermata (other than Asteroidea) of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scient. Rep. Gt. Barrier Reef Exped., 4, 197-239, 9figs, 1pl. [details] [view taxon]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Subspecies Ophiarthrum elegans unicolor H.L. Clark, 1932 accepted as Ophiarthrum elegans Peters, 1851
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details]
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Notes		Description: Colour in life: disc uniformly deep slate grey, brown or mottled, arms cream with transverse red markings fringed with black, ventral arms surface and borders of gental slits cream with dorsal red markings sometimes extending to tentacle pore (Humphreys, 1981). Arm length to 18 cm, disc diameter to 22 mm. Disc naked, skin-covered, no granules or spines. Disc with red centre, pale periphery; arm spines patterned. Habitat: among and under rubble and coral. Also distributed in Saipan, Fiji (Clark, 1954); Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); India (Sastry, 1996). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). General distribution: WIO, Red Sea to W Pacific (Richmond, 1998); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-36 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Holotype: Holotype (probable) in ?Museum für Naturkunde an der Universität Humbolt zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany); paratype in Zoologisches Musem für Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany) E.2071. Type locality: 'Querimba Inseln', off Mozambique, 12°26' S, 40°37' E (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212388
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). Ophiarthrum elegans Peters, 1851. 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=212388 on 2013-05-25