Amphiura (Amphiura) duncani Lyman, 1882 
AphiaID: 243031

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

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Amphiura (Amphiura) Forbes, 1843
Synonymised taxa		Amphiura (Amphiura) luetkeni Duncan, 1879 (was a homonym of A. luetkeni Ljungman, 1872) Amphiura duncani Lyman, 1882 Amphiura leptolepis Murakami, 1943 (synonymized by Cherbonnier & Guille (1978)) Amphiura luetkeni Duncan, 1879 (homonym of A. luetkeni Ljungman, 1872)
Sources		original description: Lyman, T. 1882. Report on the Opiuroidea. Report of the Scientific Results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873-76. Zoology, 5(1), 1-386. [details] basis of record: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Duncan, P.M. 1879. On some Ophiuroidea from the Korean Seas. Journal of the Linnean Society, 14(77), 445-482. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Cherbonnier, G. & A. Guille (1978). Echinodermes: Ophiurides. Faune de Madagascar. No 48: iv +272pp. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Murakami, S. 1943. Report on the Ophiurans of Palao, Caroline Islands. Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Kyusyu Imperial University, 7(4), 159-204, 205-222, 223-234. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] [view taxon]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Comores (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Link		To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:243031
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2007-07-18 12:17:12Z   created   Stöhr, Sabine
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		Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Amphiura (Amphiura) duncani Lyman, 1882. 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=243031 on 2013-05-22