WoRMS name details
original description
Loriol, P. de. (1899). Notes pour servir a l'histoire des Echinodermes. VII. <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Historie Naturelle de Genève.</em> 33(1), 1-34., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36246661 [details]
basis of record
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]
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]
status source
O'Hara, T. D.; Stöhr, S.; Hugall, A. F.; Thuy, B.; Martynov, A. (2018). Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification. <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> (416)., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.416 [details]
From other sources
Description Colour in life: disc grey with hexagonal paler areas, or uniformly grey-brown above with five single white dorsal arm plates spaced along arm, genital slits and oral shields witih pale grey borders (Humphreys, 1981).
Also distributed in Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore. General distribution: tropical, discontinuous (east and western Indian Ocean and west central Pacific Ocean), littoral waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Holotype Holotype in Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Genève (Switzeland). Type locality: Mauritius (as 'Ile Maurice')(Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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