Ophiomastix variabilis Koehler, 1905 
AphiaID: 212392

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

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Ophiomastix Müller & Troschel, 1842
Synonymised taxa		Ophiomastix bispinosa H.L. Clark, 1917 Ophiomastix notabilis H.L. Clark, 1938
Sources		original description: Koehler, R. 1905. Ophiures de l'expédition du Siboga. Part 2. Ophiures littorales. Siboga Expeditie, 45b. [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: Balinsky, J.B. (1957). The Ophiuroidea of Inhaca Island. Ann. Natal Mus. 14: 1-33. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details] from synonym: Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Devaney, D.M. (1978). A review of the Genus Ophiomastix (Ophiuroidea : Ophiocomidae), Part II of a series of studies on Ophiocomid Brittlestars, Micronesica 14(2): 273-359 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark, H.L. (1938). Echinoderms from Australia: an account of collections made in 1929 and 1932 Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. 55: 1-596 (28 plates) (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark, H.L. 1917. Reports on the Scientific Results of the Albatross Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, 1899-1900 (Part 18). Reports on the Scientific results of the Albatross Expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific, 1904-1905 (Part 30). Ophiuroidea. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, 61(12), 428-453. [details] [view taxon]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Eastern Africa & Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] West Indian Ocean [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Notes		Distribution: Also distributed in East Indies, Philippine and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore. General distribution: tropical, east Indo-west-central Pacific, depth range0-44 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Lectotype Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, paralectotypes Universitait van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2 specimens). Type locality: Pulu Sanguisiapo, Sulu Archipelago, Philippines (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212392
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-12-18 01:44:18Z   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. (2013). Ophiomastix variabilis Koehler, 1905. 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=212392 on 2013-05-22