Ophiuroidea taxon details
Ophiolepis superba H.L. Clark, 1915 AphiaID: 213464
| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
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Ophiolepis Müller & Troschel, 1840
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| Parent | | Ophiolepis Müller & Troschel, 1840 |
Synonymised
taxa | |
Ophiolepis annulosa (de Blainville, 1834) (synonym)
Ophiura annulosa de Blainville, 1834 (homonym)
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| Sources | |
original description: Clark, H.L. 1915. The Echinoderms of Ceylon other than Holothurians. Spolia Zeylandica 10(37): 83-102.
page(s): 89 [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]
basis of record: Clark, H.L. (1915). Catalogue of Recent ophiurans. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. 25(4): 163-376, 20 pls. [details]
from synonym: Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: de Blainville, H.M. 1834. Manuel d'actinologie ou de zoophytologie. 688p, 100 pls. Paris, available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k981319.r=blainville.langEN [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Clark, A.M. & Melville, R.V. 1976. Ophiolepis Müller & Troschel, 1840; request for designation of a type-species under the plenary powers. Z.N.(S.) 2097. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 32: 268-269., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44474#page/302/mode/1up [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]
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Distribution | | Chagos [details]
Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
West Indian Ocean [details]
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
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| Notes | |
Description: Description: Arm length to 9 cm, disc diameter to 3 cm. Larger disc plates surrounded by irregular, single rows of platelets. The relatively short arms appear smooth due to the presence of tiny lateral spines held against the arms. Background colour usually pale yellowish-orange with a distinctive pattern of purple or black on the disc and banding on the arms. Habitat: lower littoral and deeper, under bolders and among coral.
General distribution: from the Red Sea to North Australia (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, littoral waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1998).
Also distributed in SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Remark: Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: unknown (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213464 |
Taxonomic
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| 1997-04-03 13:19:51Z | 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). Ophiolepis superba H.L. Clark, 1915. 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=213464 on 2013-05-19 |
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