WoRMS taxon details
Ophiolepis cincta Müller & Troschel, 1842
AphiaID: 213467
AphiaID: 213467
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Ophiolepidina (Infraorder) > Ophiolepididae (Family) > Ophiolepis (Genus) |
| Status | alternate representation | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Ophiolepis cincta cincta Müller & Troschel, 1842 | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Ophioelegans James, 1981 | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Ophiolepis Müller & Troschel, 1840 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ophioelegans cincta (Müller & Troschel, 1842) (transferred by Liao & Clark (1995)) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Müller, J.H.; Troschel, F.H. 1842. System der Asteriden. , 1-134. Vieweg: Braunschweig [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: Liao Y, Clark AM (1995) The Echinoderms of Southern China. Science Press, Beijing. 614 pp. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Ophiolepis cincta cincta Müller & Troschel, 1842 Subspecies Ophiolepis cincta garretti Lyman, 1865 | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
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] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213467 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiolepis cincta Müller & Troschel, 1842. 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=213467 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||||||||
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