Ophiuroidea taxon details
Ophiarachnella septemspinosa (Müller & Troschel, 1842) AphiaID: 213217
| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Ophiarachnella Ljungman, 1872 |
Synonymised
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Ophiarachna armata Troschel, 1879
Ophiarachna septemspinosa Müller & Troschel, 1842
Pectinura rigida Lyman, 1874
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| 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: Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record: Cherbonnier, G. & A. Guille (1978). Echinodermes: Ophiurides. Faune de Madagascar. No 48: iv +272pp. [details]
from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Troschel, F.H. 1879. Eine neue Art der Ophiuridengattung Ophiarachna. Sitzungsberichte der niederrheinischen Gesellschaft in Bonn, 135-138. [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Clark H.L. (1909). Notes on some Australian and Indo-Pacific echinoderms. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 52: 107-135. [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Müller, J.H.; Troschel, F.H. 1842. System der Asteriden. , 1-134. Vieweg: Braunschweig [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Lyman, T. (1874). Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae: new and old, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., Vol. 3: 221-272, 7 pls (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Distribution | | Aldabra [details]
Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique [details]
Red Sea [details]
Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
West Indian Ocean [details]
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| Notes | |
Description: Colour in life: mostly agrees with Sloan et al. (in press) but some lateral interradial areas red-brown and bands of this colour on the arms may extend over three segments. Uniform dull grey or grey-green overall, radial shields dark brown (Sloan et al., 1979). Description: arm length to 18 cm, disc diameter to 4.2 cm. Similar to O. gorgonia with small, round radial shields exposed. Disc pale grey to green with radial shields dark brown. Arms banded. Habitat: under coral in lagoons and shallow reef areas.
Also distributed in Maldive area, Ceylon, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China and south Japan (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
General distribution: WIO to W Pacific (Richmond, 1998); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-55 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Holotype: Holotype (probable) Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden (Netherlands) (formerly Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie). Type locality: the Moluccas, Indonesia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213217 |
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| | | Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiarachnella septemspinosa (Müller & Troschel, 1842). 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=213217 on 2013-05-20 |
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