Ophiuroidea source details
Amphioplus somaliensis Tortonese, 1980 (original description)
East Africa for Ophiothrix trilineata Lütken, 1869
Madagascar for Ophiocoma pusilla (Brock, 1888)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocoma pusilla (Brock, 1888)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiothrix echinotecta Balinsky, 1957
Red Sea for Macrophiothrix hirsuta cheneyi (Lyman, 1861)
Red Sea for Ophiocoma pusilla (Brock, 1888)
Red Sea for Ophionereis dubia (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Red Sea for Ophiothrix propinqua Lyman, 1861
Red Sea for Ophiothrix trilineata Lütken, 1869
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Amphioplus minutus Tortonese, 1980
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Amphioplus somaliensis Tortonese, 1980
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Macrophiothrix aspidota (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Macrophiothrix hirsuta (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Macrophiothrix hirsuta cheneyi (Lyman, 1861)
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiactis savignyi (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiarachnella gorgonia (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocoma brevipes Peters, 1851
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocoma erinaceus Müller & Troschel, 1842
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocoma pica Müller & Troschel, 1842
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocoma pusilla (Brock, 1888)
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocoma scolopendrina (Lamarck, 1816)
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocoma valenciae Müller & Troschel, 1842
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiolepis cincta Müller & Troschel, 1842
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiolepis superba H.L. Clark, 1915
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiomastix venosa Peters, 1851
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiomyxa australis Lütken, 1869
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophionereis dubia (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiopeza fallax Lütken, 1869 (non Peters, 1851)
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiopeza spinosa (Ljungman, 1867)
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophioplocus imbricata (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiothrix echinotecta Balinsky, 1957
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiothrix nereidina (Lamarck, 1816)
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiothrix propinqua Lyman, 1861
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiothrix trilineata Lütken, 1869
Tanzanian Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiothrix echinotecta Balinsky, 1957
General distribution: from East Africa to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth ... [details]
Colour in life: when contracted is deep chocolate brown and creviced surface; crevices bordered with light grey border; ... [details]
Colour in life: pinkish blue overall (Humphreys, 1981). Colour brown, more or less dark and uniform; two specimens ... [details]
Description of the holotype: disc diameter 3,5 mm. Single complete arm about 5 times the disc diameter. Edge of the ... [details]
Description from the holotype: disc diameter 5 mm. Arm length about 6 times the disc diameter. Edge of the disc not ... [details]
Appearance in life: shaggy tentacles white in reflected light and pale blue in transmitted colour of ventral and ... [details]
Sometimes accompanied by the polynoid polychaete, Gastrolepidia clavigera, which crawls over its host and matches ... [details]
Colour in life: deep charcoal-grey over all surfaces only relieved on the sole by pale grey tube feet (Humphreys, ... [details]
Colour in life: brown with small white spots dorsally, or a few pale blotches, sides becoming pale and sole milky ... [details]
General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa (Tortonese, 1980). [details]
General distribution: Red Sea, East Africa, South Arabia, Persian Gulf (Tortonese, 1980); SE Arabia and Persian ... [details]
This species extends from the Red Sea and Madagascar to Hawaii and Easter Island, and from Japan to Northern ... [details]
General distribution: from the Red Sea to Hawaii (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, ... [details]
General distribution: almost circumtropical (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, circumtropical, depth range 0-30 m. (Rowe ... [details]
Colour in life: variable, grey, yellow beneath with orange apexed papillae covering surface, or grey-brown or ... [details]
Description: skin rather thin, clear yellow-brown. Podia yellow, ventrally arranged in three rows (the median ... [details]
Habitat: Found buried in sand in the upper balanoid zone, ususally associated with Patinapta crosslandi Heding and ... [details]
Sybtypes Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) (3 specimens). Type locality: Mauritius, Indian ... [details]
In family Phyllophoridae in Tortonese (1980) and Clark & Rowe (1971). Syntypes Museum für Naturkunde an der ... [details]
Only known from the holotype (type locality: Gesira, Somalia) (Tortonese, 1980). [details]
Only known from the holotype type locality: Sar Uanle, Somalia (Tortonese, 1980). [details]
In Subgenus (Thymiosycia) Pearson, 1914. Holotype Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France). Type ... [details]
In subgenus (Halodeima) Pearson, 1914. Type species of the Subgenus: (Halodeima) (Tortonese, 1980). Type data: ... [details]
Stichopus leucospilota is type species of the Subgenus: (Mertensiothuria) Deichmann, 1958. Type locality: Ualan, ... [details]
Type species of the Subgenus: (Metriatyla) Rowe, 1969. Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type ... [details]
In Subgenus Selenkothuria Deichmann, 1958 in Tortonese (1980). [details]
In Subgenus Semperothuria Deichmann, 1958. Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: 'inter ... [details]
In Subgenus (Mertensiothuria) Deichmann, 1958 in Tortonese (1980); in Subgenus (Stauropora) Rowe, 1969 in Rowe & ... [details]
In Subgenus (Thymiosycia) Pearson, 1914. Rowe (1969) treats H. monsuni Heding, 1939 as a synonym. Syntype in ... [details]
Fistularia impatiens is original combination and type species of the Subgenus: (Thymiosycia). In Subgenus ... [details]
This is a very varied species, hence the number of synonyms. The variations lie not only in colouration and the ... [details]
L. rugosa in Clark & Taylor (1971). Holotype Zoologisches Museum für Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany) E.2625. Type ... [details]
Type status and whereabouts undetermined. [details]