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Ophiolepis cincta Müller & Troschel, 1842

213467  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213467)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Asterozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Ophiuroidea (Class)
  6. Myophiuroidea (Subclass)
  7. Metophiurida (Infraclass)
  8. Ophintegrida (Superorder)
  9. Amphilepidida (Order)
  10. Ophionereidina (Suborder)
  11. Ophiolepidoidea (Superfamily)
  12. Ophiolepididae (Family)
  13. Ophiolepis (Genus)
  14. Ophiolepis cincta (Species)
alternate representation
Species
Ophioelegans cincta (Müller & Troschel, 1842) (transferred by Liao & Clark (1995))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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]  OpenAccess publication 
Description Also distributed at 'insularum Societatis et Fidji' in Ljungman (1866); SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal,...  
Description Also distributed at 'insularum Societatis et Fidji' in Ljungman (1866); SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995)), Fiji and Saipan in Clark (1954)).
General distribution: Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958); from the Red Sea to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, littoral waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Colour in life: disc rather brownish, with irregular spots. White cross-bands marbled with greyish on the arms. Habitat: coral reef (Balinsky, 1957). [details]
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T. & Thuy, B. (Eds) (2018). World Ophiuroidea database. Ophiolepis cincta Müller & Troschel, 1842. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/Ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213467 on 2019-03-26
Date
action
by
1997-04-03 13:19:51Z
created
Onyango, Eunice
2000-09-29 13:20:33Z
changed
Garcia, Maria
2007-07-18 12:17:12Z
checked
Stöhr, Sabine
2009-04-23 07:58:07Z
changed
Stöhr, Sabine

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]  OpenAccess publication 

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 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  PDF available 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
 

From other sources
Description Also distributed at 'insularum Societatis et Fidji' in Ljungman (1866); SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995)), Fiji and Saipan in Clark (1954)).
General distribution: Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958); from the Red Sea to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, littoral waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Colour in life: disc rather brownish, with irregular spots. White cross-bands marbled with greyish on the arms. Habitat: coral reef (Balinsky, 1957). [details]

Holotype Holotype (probable) in Museum für Naturkunde an der Universität Humbolt zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany). Type locality: Red Sea (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
In family 'Ophiolepidea' in Kalk (1958). [details]
LanguageName 
Japanese ダンゴクモヒトデ  [details]
To Barcode of Life (27 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications) 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To Encyclopedia of Life (from synonym Ophioelegans cincta (Müller & Troschel, 1842))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (47 records) 

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