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
Rank		Species
Parent		Amphiura (Amphiura) Forbes, 1843
Synonymised names		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] source of synonymy (of Amphiura leptolepis Murakami, 1943) Cherbonnier, G. & A. Guille (1978). Echinodermes: Ophiurides. Faune de Madagascar. No 48: iv +272pp. [details] original description (of Amphiura leptolepis Murakami, 1943) 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] basis of record (of Amphiura duncani Lyman, 1882) 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] source of synonymy (of Amphiura duncani Lyman, 1882) Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] original description (of Amphiura luetkeni Duncan, 1879) Duncan, P.M. 1879. On some Ophiuroidea from the Korean Seas. Journal of the Linnean Society, 14(77), 445-482. [details] [show all]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		From other sources Comores Comores [from synonym] [view taxon] [details] Kenya Kenya [from synonym] [view taxon] [details] Madagascar Madagascar [from synonym] [view taxon] [details] Tanzania Tanzania [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Link		To Encyclopedia of Life
Attribute		Functional group benthos » Stage adult (inherited from Ophiuroidea) [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:243031
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2007-07-18 12:17:12Z   created   Stöhr, Sabine
		[Taxonomic tree] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images]
		Citation: Stöhr, S. (2014). Amphiura (Amphiura) duncani Lyman, 1882. In: Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T. & Thuy, B. (Eds) (2014) World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T. & Thuy, B. (Eds) (2014) World Ophiuroidea database at http://www.marinespecies.org/ophiuroidea./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=243031 on 2014-07-10