Ophiuroidea taxon details
Ophiomastix koehleri Devaney, 1977
212395 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212395)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Description Colour in life: disc spineless, uniformly dark purple with white edges, dorsal arm plates off-white with large irregular...
Description Colour in life: disc spineless, uniformly dark purple with white edges, dorsal arm plates off-white with large irregular purple patches over most of some pairs of plates giving dark arm band two segments wide in every five, pale or purple mottled clavate dorsal arm spines, small arm spines with purple and white annulations, tentacle scales banded, oral shields with large dark purple blotches, podia red (Humphreys, 1981). [details]
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2024). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiomastix koehleri Devaney, 1977. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212395 on 2024-04-19
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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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From other sources
Description Colour in life: disc spineless, uniformly dark purple with white edges, dorsal arm plates off-white with large irregular purple patches over most of some pairs of plates giving dark arm band two segments wide in every five, pale or purple mottled clavate dorsal arm spines, small arm spines with purple and white annulations, tentacle scales banded, oral shields with large dark purple blotches, podia red (Humphreys, 1981). [details]