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Ophiomaza cacaotica Lyman, 1871 
AphiaID: 212432

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Ophiotrichidae (Family) > Ophiomaza (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Ophiomaza Lyman, 1871
Parent Ophiomaza Lyman, 1871
Synonymised
taxa
  Ophiomaza cacaotica picta Koehler, 1895
Ophiomaza kanekoi Matsumoto, 1917
Sources  original description: Lyman, T. 1871. Supplement to the Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae. Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, 6, 1-17, pls 1, 2. [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: Koehler, R. 1895. Catalogue raisonné des échinodermes recueillis par M. Korotnev aux iles de la sonde. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France, 8, 374-423. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Matsumoto, H. 1917. A monograph of Japanese Ophiuroidea, arranged according to a new classification. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University, Tokyo, 38, 1-408. [details] [view taxon]

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Subspecies Ophiomaza cacaotica picta Koehler, 1895 accepted as Ophiomaza cacaotica Lyman, 1871
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
Madagascar [details]
Red Sea [details]
Tanzania [details]
West Indian Ocean [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Description: Also distributed in Persian Gulf, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-50 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Holotype: Holotype in Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) No. 2484; paratype in Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) No. 4102. Type locality: Zanzibar (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212432
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Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-02-03 23:00:00Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-29 13:20:33Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2007-07-18 12:17:12Z  checked  Stöhr, Sabine
  
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  Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiomaza cacaotica Lyman, 1871. 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=212432 on 2013-05-24
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