Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS)

BeRMS taxon details

Ophiura albida Forbes, 1839

Ophiura albida

AphiaID

124913 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124913)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Ophiura Lamarck, 1801

Original name

Ophiura albida Forbes, 1839

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Forbes, E. (1839). On the Asteriadae of the Irish Sea. Memoirs of the Wernerian Society. 8: 114-143., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35485580
page(s): 125 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiura albida Forbes, 1839. Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010 onwards) Belgian Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/berms./aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=124913 on 2025-05-29

Regional species database citation

VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010 onwards). Belgian Register of Marine Species. Ophiura albida Forbes, 1839. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/berms./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=124913 on 2025-05-29

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Hansson, Hans

2007-07-18 12:17:12Z

checked

Stöhr, Sabine

2011-07-13 12:05:25Z

changed

Stöhr, Sabine

Licensing

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original description Forbes, E. (1839). On the Asteriadae of the Irish Sea. Memoirs of the Wernerian Society. 8: 114-143., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35485580
page(s): 125 [details]

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

context source (Schelde) MWTL biological monitoring network Westerschelde [MWTL biologisch monitoring netwerk Westerschelde] [details]

context source (BeRMS 2020) Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2015): Epibenthos and demersal fish monitoring data in function of wind energy development in the Belgian part of the North Sea. [details]

basis of record Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,. 50: pp. 336-351. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Southward, E.C.; Campbell, A.C. (2006). [Echinoderms: keys and notes for the identification of British species]. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 56. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury, UK. ISBN 1-85153-269-2. 272 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]

additional source Hansson, H. G. (1998). NEAT (North East Atlantic Taxa): Scandinavian Echinodermata Check-List (Comp.). , available online at https://www.gu.se/sites/default/files/2020-10/NEAT%2AEchinodermata.pdf [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
Dutch	kleine slangster	[details]
English	Serpent's table brittlestarbrittlestar	[details]
French	ophiure blanche	[details]
German	Heller Schlangensterngemeiner Schlangenstern	[details]
Norwegian Bokmål	hvitflekket slangestjerne	[details]
Norwegian Nynorsk	kvitflekket slangestjerne	[details]
Swedish	vitfläckig fransormstjärna	[details]