Ophiopsila pantherina Koehler, 1898 
AphiaID: 213228

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Ophiocomidae (Family) > Ophiopsilinae (Subfamily) > Ophiopsila (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Ophiopsila Forbes, 1843
Synonymised taxa		Ophiopsila gilletti Kingston, 1980
Sources		original description: 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] 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: Kingston, S.C. 1980. The Swain Reefs Expedition: Ophiuroidea. Records of the Australian Museum, 33(3), 123-147. [details] [view taxon]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Red Sea [details]
Links		To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes		Description: Also distributed in Bay of Bengal and East Indies (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore. General distribution: tropical, endemic in Australia, depth range 0-40 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Syntypes whereabouts undetermined (2 specimens). Type locality: King and Table Ils, Mergui archipelago, Burma (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213228
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-04-03 13:19:51Z   created   Onyango, Eunice 2000-09-20 08:24:09Z   changed   Garcia, Maria 2007-02-21 09:05:50Z   changed   Appeltans, Ward 2007-07-18 12:17:12Z   checked   Stöhr, Sabine
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		Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiopsila pantherina Koehler, 1898. 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=213228 on 2013-05-18