Ophiarthrum lymani de Loriol, 1893 
AphiaID: 212390

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
Sources		original description: Loriol, P. de. 1893. Catalogue raisonné des Echinodermes recueillis par M.V. de Robillard à l'Ile Maurice. III. Ophiurides et Astrophytides. Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. nat. Gèneve, 32(3), 1-63, pls 23-25. [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]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details]
Link		To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes		Description: Description: as O. elegans, with black disc and spines uniform in colour (Richmond, 1998). [details] Remark: Only known from the holotype from Mauritius; possibly a synonym of O. elegans var. unicolor from the Great Barrier Reef (Cherbonnier & Guille, 1978). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212390
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-04-01 13:22:26Z   created   Onyango, Eunice 2000-07-24 07:28:46Z   changed   Appeltans, Ward 2007-07-18 12:17:12Z   checked   Stöhr, Sabine
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		Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiarthrum lymani de Loriol, 1893. 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=212390 on 2013-05-23