Ophiocomella sexradia (Duncan, 1887) 
AphiaID: 213452

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

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Ophiocomella A.H. Clark, 1939
Synonymised taxa		Amphilimna sexradia (Duncan, 1887) (synonym) Dougaloplus dividua (Matsumoto, 1917) (synonym acc. to A.M. Clark (1970)) Dougaloplus sexradia (Duncan, 1887) (synonym) Ophiocnida sexradia Duncan, 1887 Ophiocoma parva H.L. Clark, 1915 Ophiocomella clippertoni A.H. Clark, 1939 Ophiocomella schultzi A.H. Clark, 1941 Ophiomastix sexradiata A.H. Clark, 1952
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: Balinsky, J.B. (1957). The Ophiuroidea of Inhaca Island. Ann. Natal Mus. 14: 1-33. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Cherbonnier, G. & A. Guille (1978). Echinodermes: Ophiurides. Faune de Madagascar. No 48: iv +272pp. [details] additional source: Stöhr, S. 2011. New records and new species of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from Lifou, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. Zootaxa 3089: 1-50., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt03089p050.pdf page(s): 38 [details] from synonym: Duncan, P.M. 1887. On the ophiuridae of the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr. John Anderson, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Museum. Linnean Society Journal of Zoology, 21, 85-106, 2 pl. & 107-120, 2 pl. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark, A.M. (1970). Notes on the family Amphiuridae (Ophiuroidea). Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Zool.) 19(1): 1-81. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark, A.H. (1939). Echinoderms (other than holothurians) collected on the presidential cruise of 1938. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 98(11): 1-18. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark, A.H. (1952). Echinoderms from the Marshall Islands. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 102: 265-303. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark, H.L. (1915). Catalogue of Recent ophiurans. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. 25(4): 163-376, 20 pls.  [details] [view taxon] context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Lifou [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] West Indian Ocean [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Notes		Description: Colour in life: disc dark green, arms dark green with light green banding, ventrally paler green overall (Sloan et al., 1979). Arm length to 15 mm, disc diameter to 4 mm. Disc granules longer than stout, pointed on radial shields and marginally. Six arms. Aboral arm plates as long as broad or slightly broader than long, distal edge convex, proximally acute. Oral arm plates longer than broad, distal edge convex, lateral angles concave. Four small arm spines, as long as the breadth of the segment. Single tentacle scale. Habitat: sea grass beds and coral bases. Also distributed in Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, south Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). General distribution: WIO, Red sea to W Pacific (Richmond, 1998); littoral waters to 15 m., tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean (Rowe & Gates, 1995); East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands in Sastry (1991). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Holotype: Holotype (probable) ?Indian Museum, Calcutta (India). Type locality: Mergui Archipelago, Burma (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Genus spelled 'Ophiocornella' in Richmond (1997). [details]
Image		Ophiocomella sexradia added on 2011-11-11 - author: Stöhr, Sabine qualitystatus: checked by Stöhr, Sabine on 2011-11-11 16:51:55
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213452
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
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		Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiocomella sexradia (Duncan, 1887). 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=213452 on 2013-05-21