Ophiomyxa australis Lütken, 1869 
AphiaID: 212437

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiomyxina (Suborder) > Ophiomyxidae (Family) > Ophiomyxa (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Ophiomyxa Müller & Troschel, 1840
Synonymised taxa		Ophiodera brevispina (v. Martens, 1870) (synonym) Ophiomyxa brevipina von Martens, 1870 Ophiomyxa brevispina v. Martens, 1870 Ophiomyxa brevispina var. irregularis Koehler, 1898 Ophiomyxa irregularis Koehler, 1905 Ophiomyxa robillardi de Loriol, 1893
Sources		original description: Lütken, C.F. 1869. Additamenta ad historiam Ophiuridarum. Tredie Afdelning. Det kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskaps Skrifter. 5 Raekke, Naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk Afdelning, 8, 20-109. [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] additional source: Mah, C.L., D.G. McKnight, M.K. Eagle, D.L. Pawson, N. Ameziane, D.J. Vance, A.N. Baker, H.E.S. Clark, and N. Alcock. 2009. Phylum Echinodermata. In Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch; 371-400.  [details] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Martens, E. v. (1870). Die Ophiuriden des indischen Oceans. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 36: 244-262. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Koehler, R. 1905. Ophiures de l'expédition du Siboga. Part 2. Ophiures littorales. Siboga Expeditie, 45b. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Koehler, R. 1898. Echinoderms recueillis par l'Investigator dans l'Ocean Indien, II les Opiures littorales. Bulletin scientifique de la France et de la Belgique, 31, 55-126, pl. 2-5. [details] [view taxon] context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Aldabra [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (40 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Notes		Description: Colour in life: ranging from uniform light orange to uniform blood-red to disc blood-red with arms distally banded with yellow (Sloan et al., 1979. Description: Arm length to 10 cm. Dorsal surface of the disc smooth. Arms cylindrical with dorsal plates reduced, embedded in naked skin. Colour bright red with pale bands on arms. Habitat: lower eulittoral and shallow reefs. Also recoreded in Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991); possibly circumaustralian although not recorded from Gulf of Carpentaria or north (Rowe & Gates, 1995). General distribution: Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 183-1006 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); from East Africa to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1998); East coast of Africa to western Pacific Ocean (Sastry, 1991). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, continental slope (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Spelling: Genus misspelled 'Lophiomyxa' in Vine (1986)??. Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: Bass Strait (as '... inter Australian et Tasmaniam') (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212437
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). Ophiomyxa australis Lütken, 1869. 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=212437 on 2013-05-25