WoRMS name details

Ophiactis parva Mortensen, 1926

212331  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212331)

 unaccepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Mortensen, T. (1926). Cambridge Expedition to the Suez Canal in 1924. 6 - Report on the Echinoderms. <em>Transactions from the Zoological Society London.</em> 22: 117-131. [details]   
Description Colour greenish, without conspicuous markings (Balinsky, 1957).
Also distributed in SE Arabia (Clark & Rowe, 1971).  
Description Colour greenish, without conspicuous markings (Balinsky, 1957).
Also distributed in SE Arabia (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details]
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2024). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiactis parva Mortensen, 1926. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212331 on 2024-03-28
Date
action
by
1997-02-03 23:00:00Z
created
2000-09-27 07:27:35Z
changed
Garcia, Maria
2007-08-27 13:50:37Z
checked

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original description Mortensen, T. (1926). Cambridge Expedition to the Suez Canal in 1924. 6 - Report on the Echinoderms. <em>Transactions from the Zoological Society London.</em> 22: 117-131. [details]   

context source (Introduced species) Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. <em>BioInvasions Records.</em> 1: 235-245., available online at http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record Streftaris, N., A. Zenetos & E. Papathanassiou. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. <em>Oceanogry and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 43: 419-453. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Zenetos, A.; Çinar, M.E.; Pancucci-Papadopoulou, M.A.; Harmelin, J.-G.; Furnari, G.; Andaloro, F.; Bellou, N.; Streftaris, N.; Zibrowius, H. (2005). Annotated list of marine alien species in the Mediterranean with records of the worst invasive species. <em>Mediterranean Marine Science.</em> 6 (2): 63-118., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273213810_Annotated_list_of_marine_alien_species_in_the_Mediterranean_with_records_of_the_worst_invasive_species [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Galil, B. (2007). Seeing Red: Alien species along the Mediterranean coast of Israel. <em>Aquatic Invasions.</em> 2(4): 281-312., available online at https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2007.2.4.2 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

source of synonymy Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. <em>In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia'.</em> 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne). [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species vector dispersal in Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin (Marine Region) : Canals: natural range expansion through man-made canals [details]

From other sources
Description Colour greenish, without conspicuous markings (Balinsky, 1957).
Also distributed in SE Arabia (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details]

Remark Syntypes (2 specimens) Natural History Museum, London (England) 1927.1.10.54, 55. Type locality: Suez Canal (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
The record of Balinsky, 1957 from Inhaca is not sure a good identification. [details]