Ophiarachna affinis Lütken, 1869 
AphiaID: 213208

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Ophiodermatina (Infraorder) > Ophiodermatidae (Family) > Ophiarachninae (Subfamily) > Ophiarachna (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Ophiarachna Müller & Troschel, 1842
Synonymised taxa		Ophiarachna clavigera Brock, 1888
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] from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Brock, J. 1888. Die Ophiuridenfauna des indischen Archipels. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 47, 465-539. [details] [view taxon]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Aldabra [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details]
Links		To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Notes		Description: Colour in life: strongly resembling that of Ophiocoma doederleini, basically mid-grey, disc light grey with widely spaced black spots and a pale ramifying linear pattern, arms mid-grey with white bands, arms spines annulated white and grey, including the elongated ventralmost spines, ventrally mid-grey, oral shields white with irregular grey markings (Sloan et al., 1979). Description: arm length to 9 cm, disc diameter to 2.5 cm. Disc brown to grey, mottled with double spots. Arms mottled darker and lighter brown to grey with darker bands. Habitat: among coral rubble. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range to 25 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); WIO, Red Sea to W Pacific (Richmond, 1998). Also distributed in East Indies, Philippine and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Syntypes Zoologisches Museum für Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany) E.4073 (1 specimen). Type locality: Fiji Ils. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213208
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 2011-07-07 07:16:16Z   changed   Stöhr, Sabine
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		Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiarachna affinis 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=213208 on 2013-05-22