WoRMS taxon details
Amphiura chiajei Forbes, 1843
AphiaID: 125073
AphiaID: 125073
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Amphiuridae (Family) > Amphiura (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Amphiura Forbes, 1843 | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Amphiura Forbes, 1843 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Amphiura florifera Forbes, 1843 (synonym) Amphiura rancureli Tomasi, 1967 (synonym) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Forbes. 1843. On the radiata of the eastern Mediterranean. Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 19: 143-153. [details] basis of record: Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 336-351 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Southward, E.C.; Campbell, A.C. (2006). [Echinoderms: keys and notes for the identification of British species]. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 56. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury, UK. ISBN 1-85153-269-2. 272 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] status source (from synonym): Clark, A.M. (1970). Notes on the family Amphiuridae (Ophiuroidea). Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Zool.) 19(1): 1-81. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 7 [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] source of synonymy (from synonym): Madsen, F.J. (1970). West African Ophiuroids. Atlantidae Report 11: 151-243. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] England [details] English Channel [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Faroe Islands [details] French Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details] German Bight [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Marseille [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] North East Atlantic [details] North Sea [details] Norway [details] Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Tunis Gulf [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | deposit feeder [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | BIOTIC Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (38 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Breeding: Ophiopluteus larva. Autumn. [details] Distribution: In depths of 50 to more than 200 m, burrowing in sand or muddy sand, all round the British Isles, but rare in the English Channel. [details] Type locality: Likely eastern Mediterranean Sea [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125073 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S.; Hansson, H. (2013). Amphiura chiajei Forbes, 1843. In: Stöhr, S. & O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013) World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125073 on 2013-06-18 | |||||||||||||||||
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