Macrophiothrix longipeda (Lamarck, 1816) 
AphiaID: 213195

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

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Macrophiothrix H.L. Clark, 1938
Synonymised taxa		Macrophiothrix picturata (de Loriol, 1893) Ophiothrix longipeda (Lamarck, 1816) Ophiothrix microplax Bell, 1884 Ophiothrix picturatus de Loriol, 1893 Ophiothrix punctolimbata von Martens, 1870 Ophiura longipeda Lamarck, 1816
Sources		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: Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details] basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] basis of record (from synonym): Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Lamarck, J.B. de. 1816. Ordre Second. Radiaires Échinodermes. Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, 2, 522-568. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Martens, E. v. (1870). Die Ophiuriden des indischen Oceans. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 36: 244-262. [details] [view taxon] source of synonymy (from synonym): Clark, A.M. (1968). Notes on some tropical Indo-Pacific ophiotrichids and ophiodermatids (Ophiuroidea). Bull. Br. Mus (nat. Hist) 16(7): 276-322. [details] [view taxon] original description (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] 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] Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mozambique [details] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Seychelles [details] South Africa (country) (probably not valid) [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Notes		Description: Colour in life: disc colour bluish with dark blue spots, spotted radial shields, ventrally lighter blue with dark spots (Sloan et al., 1979. Arms banded in grey and pale blue. Description: Arm length to 80 cm (about 20 times disc diameter), disc diameter 1-4 cm. Disc scales covered by thorny stumps. Radial shields with rugose granule-like stumps. Aboral arm plates more than twice as broad as long, distal edge with a straight median region, marked laterodistal angles, broadest distally. Oral arm plates octogonal, distal edge straight. Up to ten thorny arm spines, lowest one comb-like. Habitat: lower eulittoral, sublittoral, under coral boulders or in burrow or a crevice. Also distributed in Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal , East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). General distribution: Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1998), depth range 0-72 m.; east coast of Africa to western Pacific Ocean (Sastry, 1991); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-72 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Neotype U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C. (USA) No. 4291. Type locality: 'L'Ocean austral, pres de l'Ile de France [Mauritius]' (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213195
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-02-03 23:00:00Z   created   Vanden Berghe, Edward 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). Macrophiothrix longipeda (Lamarck, 1816). 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=213195 on 2013-06-19