WoRMS name details
original description
Müller, J. and Troschel, F. H. (1842). System der Asteriden.1. Asteriae. 2. Ophiuridae. <em>Vieweg: Braunschweig.</em> xxx+134 pp. 12 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44159 [details]
basis of record
Clark, A. M.; Rowe, F. W. E. (1971). Monograph of shallow-water indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. <em>Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History).</em> 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]
additional source
Devaney, D. M. (1970). Studies on ophiocomid brittlestars. I. A new genus (Clarkcoma) of Ophiocominae with a re-evaluation of the genus Ophiocoma. <em>Smithson. Contr. Zool.</em> 51: 1-41. [details]
additional source
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
new combination reference
O'Hara, T. D.; Hugall, A. F.; Cisternas, P. A.; Boissin, E.; Bribiesca-Contreras, G.; Sellanes, J.; Paulay, G.; Byrne, M. (2019). Phylogenomics, life history and morphological evolution of ophiocomid brittlestars. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 130: 67-80., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.003 page(s): 72 [details]
From other sources
Description Colour in life: disc with thin gold radiating lines on a dark brown background, long dark brown arm spines, dumb-bell-shaped gold and cream bands on the dorsal arm plates which were otherwise dark brown, ventral arm plates with a similar pattern, oral shields dark brown with white lateral edges (Sloan et al., 1979). Description: arm length to 4 cm, disc diameter to 10 mm. Disc granules uniform in size, covering the radial shields, extending into a V-shaped interradial area orally. Aboral arm plates distally broader and convex. Oral arm plates broad. Up to six arm spines, thick, flat, or round and pointed, upper ones longest. Arms with long spines and white banding. Habitat: among coral (Tortonese, 1980).
Also distributed in Gilbert Islands, Tuamotus (Clark, 1954); SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, south Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995)); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991).
General distribution: from the Red Sea to Hawaii and SE Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); WIO, Red Sea to W Pacific (Richmond, 1998); tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, littoral waters (Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995)); East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands in Sastry (1991).
Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Type locality unknown. Holotype (probable) Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (France) (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ophiartrum pictum Müller and Troschel = Ophiocoma pica??(Lyman, 1874). [details]
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