Ophiothrix echinotecta Balinsky, 1957 
AphiaID: 212400

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Ophiotrichidae (Family) > Ophiothrix (Genus)

Status		alternate representation
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name		Ophiothrix (Ophiothrix) echinotecta Balinsky, 1957
Rank		Species
Parent		Ophiothrix Müller & Troschel, 1840
Sources		original description: 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 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		East Africa [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Mozambique [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details]
Notes		Description: Arms five to eight times the disc diameter. Disc scales covered by spines, near the small radial shields the spines are less dense. Oral shields very broad, somewhat trilobed, prowimal rounded edge separating broadly the two adoral plates. Oral arm plates somewhat broader than long, basal and distal edges straight, lateral ones convex. Single tentacle scale, with one or two points on the tip. Arms colour dark or light green and white; with darker green bands across each aboral arm plate separated by a light area from an even darker narrow band across the juncture of two aboral arm plates. Habitat: hiding under sea urchins in rock hollows, coral reefs. (Balinsky, 1957). General distribution: East Africa (Tortonese, 1980). [details] Remark: In Subgenus Ophiothrix Müller & Troschel, 1840. Type locality: Inhaca I., Delagoa Bay, intertidal. Holotype in South African Museum, Cape Town (South Africa) (Balinsky, 1957). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212400
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 2007-08-27 13:50:37Z   checked   Stöhr, Sabine 2011-07-08 06:49:59Z   changed   Stöhr, Sabine
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		Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiothrix echinotecta Balinsky, 1957. 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=212400 on 2013-05-21