Ophiothela venusta (de Loriol, 1900) 
AphiaID: 213400

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

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Ophiothela Verrill, 1867
Synonymised taxa		Ophiocnema venusta de Loriol, 1900 (misspelling) Ophiocnemis venusta de Loriol, 1900 Ophiothela beauforti (Engel, 1949) (synonym acc. to A.M. Clark (1974)) Ophiothela nuda (H.L. Clark, 1923) (synonym acc. to Cherbonnier & Guille (1978))
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: Cherbonnier, G. & A. Guille (1978). Echinodermes: Ophiurides. Faune de Madagascar. No 48: iv +272pp. [details] basis of record: Clark, A.M. (1974). Notes on some echinoderms from southern Africa. Bulluetin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology) 26(6): 423-487, 3 pls, 16 figs, 1 map, 3 tables (look up in IMIS) [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: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: de Loriol, P. 1900. Notes pour servir à l'étude des Echinodermes. VIII. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 8, 55-96 pls 6-9. [details] [view taxon]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Comores [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Seychelles [details] South Africa (country) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania [details]
Links		To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Notes		Description: Description: similar to O. tigris, with granules and spinelets on disc and arms, variable colour pattern (Richmond, 1998). Also distributed in SE Arabia and East Indies (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth 19 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Holotype: Holotype ?Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Genève (Switzerland). Type locality: Singapore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213400
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). Ophiothela venusta (de Loriol, 1900). 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=213400 on 2013-05-18