WoRMS taxon details
Ophiocoma brevipes Peters, 1851
AphiaID: 212370
AphiaID: 212370
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Ophiocomidae (Family) > Ophiocominae (Subfamily) > Ophiocoma (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Ophiocoma L. Agassiz, 1835 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ophiocoma brevispinosa Smith, 1876 Ophiopeza danbyi Farquhar, 1897 (synonymized by H.L. Clark (1915)) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Peters, W. 1851. Übersicht der an der Küste von Mossambique eingesammelten Ophiuren, unter denen sich zwei neue Gattungen befinden. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1851, 463-466. [details] basis of record: Clark, A.M. and F.W.E. Rowe. (1971). Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): 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] from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Smith, E.A. 1876. Descriptions of two new species of Ophiocoma. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 4, 18(1), 39-40. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Farquhar, H. (1897). A contribution to the history of New Zealand Echinoderms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 26:186-198 page(s): 189 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Ophiocoma brevipes dentata (H.L. Clark, 1921) accepted as Ophiocoma dentata Müller & Troschel, 1842 Subspecies Ophiocoma brevipes doederleini (H.L. Clark, 1921) accepted as Ophiocoma dentata Müller & Troschel, 1842 Variety Ophiocoma brevipes var. insularia Lyman, 1862 accepted as Ophiocoma dentata Müller & Troschel, 1842 Variety Ophiocoma brevipes var. longispina H.L. Clark, 1917 accepted as Ophiocoma longispina H.L. Clark, 1917 Variety Ophiocoma brevipes var. variegata Smith, 1876 accepted as Ophiocoma dentata Müller & Troschel, 1842 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: disc off-white with irregular green markings, arms off-white with pale green banding, ventrally off-white overall but sometimes stained by amber-colored gut regurgitations (Sloan et al., 1979). Aboral arm plates and arm spines green. Description: Disc scales with similar rounded granules, covering the radial shields. Oral shields of variable shape, more often longer than broad, white with one or more brown spots. Aboral arm plates ovate, rounded lateral angles, broader than long; wholly dark or wholly pale or with a dark distal edge or dark with two clear spots in the middle; a dark line runs along the middle of the dorsal side of the arms; brown and yellowish bands variably distributed on the arms, covering two or more segments. Six arm spines basally (sometimes there are five basally), then five arm spines, reduced to four on the distal segments; first upper one shorter, second and third about equal to the width of the dorsal arm plate or a little shorter, lower one the longest; white sometimes with a brown longitudinal line or a broad ring. Two tentacle scales. Disc of many specimens with a fine brown reticulation, more or less dark; others specimens pale brown with some darker, irregular variegation; other specimen pale in the centre of the disc and surrounded by brown radiating lines which near the edge become darker, forming a ring of spots all around the disc. Two whitish spots are frequent on each side of the arm base. The lines or spots may extend on the oral side to a variable degree (Tortonese, 1980). Also occurs in Gilbert Islands, Tuamotus, Fiji, Netherlands New Guinea (Clark, 1954); Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Lakshadweep (India) (Sastry, 1991). General distribution: from East Africa to Polynesia, Hawaii, Easter Island (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, littoral waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995); East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Type: Syntypes in Museum für Naturkunde an der Universität Humbolt zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany) Nos. 961-962, Museum für Naturkunde an der Universität Humbolt zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany) No. 4660 (5 specimens). Type locality: Querimba Island, Mozambique (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212370 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiocoma brevipes Peters, 1851. 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=212370 on 2013-05-18 | ||||||||||||||
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