Macrophiothrix propinqua (Lyman, 1861) 
AphiaID: 213198

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 bedoti (de Loriol, 1893) (synonym) Macrophiothrix schmidti (Djakonov, 1930) Ophiothrichoides propinqua (Lyman, 1861) Ophiothrix (Keystonea) propinqua Lyman, 1861 Ophiothrix (Placophiothrix) westwardi Devaney, 1974 Ophiothrix bedoti de Loriol, 1893 Ophiothrix propinqua Lyman, 1861 Ophiothrix schmidti Djakonov, 1930 Ophiothrix triloba von Martens, 1870 Ophiotrichoides propinqua (Lyman, 1861)
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: Humphreys, W.F. (1981). The echinoderms of Kenya's marine parks and adjacent regions. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Africa (Tervuren, Belgium) Zoologische Documentatie 19. 39 pp. (look up in IMIS) [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: Bell, F. J. 1909. Report on the echinoderma (other than holothurians) collected by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner in the western parts of the Indian Ocean. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2nd Series: Zoology 13, 17-22., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55291#page/35/mode/1up [details] from synonym: Clark, A.M. (1980). Some Ophiuroidea from the Seychelles islands and Inhaca, Mozambique. Rev. Zool. Afr. 94(3): 533-558. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] 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] from synonym: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Djakonov, A.M. 1930. Echiniden, Ophiuriden und Asteriden gesammelt von Prof. P.J. Schmidt bei den Riu-Kiu Inseln im Jahre 1926-1927. Zoologische Jahrbücher, 59, 233-252, pls 12, 13. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Loriol, P. de. 1893. Echinodermes de la Baie d'Amboine. Revue Suisse zool., 1, 359-426, pls 13-15. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Devaney, D.M. (1974). Shallow-water asterozoans of Southeastern Polynesia II. Ophiuroidea. Micronesica 10(1): 105-204. [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: Lyman, T. 1862. Descriptions of new Ophiuridae. Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 8, 75-86. [details] [view taxon]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Cargados Carajos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Comores (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Eastern Africa & Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Kenya [details] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mascarene Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Seychelles [details] Somalia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
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Notes		Description: Description: arm length to 14 cm, disc diameter to 1 cm. Disc surface with or without scattered stumps, but lthe arge radial shields always bare. Aboral arm plates broader than long, distal side convex or straigth, laterodistal angles bent backwards, broadest at about the middle of the plate. Distal edge of oral arm plates straight. Arm spines as long as or slightly longer than bredth of the segment. Colour variable, from evenly dark bluish to banded orange and cream. Arms variegated or uniformly blue with darker bands of 3-4 segments. Habitat: in rock crevices and among coral. Also distributed in Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Andaman Is. (Sastry, 1997). General distribution: tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth intertidal-80 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); W Indian Ocean, Red Sea to W Pacific Ocean (Richmond, 1998); East coast of Africa to western Pacific Ocean. Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Holotype: Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) No. 2399. Type locality: Kiribati (as Kingsmill Ils) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213198
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-11-12 01:36:06Z   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). Macrophiothrix propinqua (Lyman, 1861). 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=213198 on 2013-05-19