Ophiomaza cacaotica Lyman, 1871 
AphiaID: 212432

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

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Typetaxon of		Ophiomaza Lyman, 1871
Parent		Ophiomaza Lyman, 1871
Synonymised taxa		Ophiomaza cacaotica picta Koehler, 1895 Ophiomaza kanekoi Matsumoto, 1917
Sources		original description: Lyman, T. 1871. Supplement to the Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae. Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, 6, 1-17, pls 1, 2. [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: Koehler, R. 1895. Catalogue raisonné des échinodermes recueillis par M. Korotnev aux iles de la sonde. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France, 8, 374-423. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Matsumoto, H. 1917. A monograph of Japanese Ophiuroidea, arranged according to a new classification. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University, Tokyo, 38, 1-408. [details] [view taxon]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Subspecies Ophiomaza cacaotica picta Koehler, 1895 accepted as Ophiomaza cacaotica Lyman, 1871
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Madagascar [details] Red Sea [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS
Notes		Description: Also distributed in Persian Gulf, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-50 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Holotype: Holotype in Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) No. 2484; paratype in Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) No. 4102. Type locality: Zanzibar (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212432
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). Ophiomaza cacaotica Lyman, 1871. 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=212432 on 2013-05-23