Ophiuroidea taxon details

Ophiochaeta hirsuta Lütken, 1869

213455  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213455)

accepted
Species
Ophiochaeta crinita Cherbonnier & Guille, 1978 · unaccepted (synonymized by Price & Rowe (1996))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Lütken, C. F. (1869). Additamenta ad historiam Ophiuridarum. Tredie Afdelning. <em>Det kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter. 5 Raekke, Naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk Afdelning.</em> 8: 20-109., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1096322 [details]   
Description Colour in life: uniform grey-brown with pale brown banding on the arms, ventrally off-white overall (Sloan et al., 1979....  
Description Colour in life: uniform grey-brown with pale brown banding on the arms, ventrally off-white overall (Sloan et al., 1979. Description: arm length to 18 mm, disc diameter to 4.5 mm. Small, delicate species with both dorsal and ventral surfaces of the disc covered with spines, which may be replaced or interspersed with flat-topped granules. Colour grey to brown with arms banded. Habitat: among coral branches or under coral.
General distribution: tropical, west-central Pacific, Indo-Malayan Region, western Indian Ocean, depth range 0-26 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); WIO, Red Sea to W Pacific (Richmond, 1998).
Also distributed in South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2024). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiochaeta hirsuta Lütken, 1869. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213455 on 2024-03-29
Date
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1997-04-03 13:19:51Z
created
2000-09-20 08:24:09Z
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Garcia, Maria
2007-07-18 12:17:12Z
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original description Lütken, C. F. (1869). Additamenta ad historiam Ophiuridarum. Tredie Afdelning. <em>Det kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter. 5 Raekke, Naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk Afdelning.</em> 8: 20-109., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1096322 [details]   

original description  (of Ophiochaeta crinita Cherbonnier & Guille, 1978) Cherbonnier, G.; Guille, A. (1978). Echinodermes: Ophiurides. <em>Faune de Madagascar, 48.</em> Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS): Paris. ISBN 2-222-02341-6. 272 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

original description  (of Ophiochaeta boschmai A.H. Clark, 1964) Clark, A. H. (1964). Description of two new species of Ophiuroidea collected during the Snellius expedition. <em>Zool. Meded. Leiden.</em> 39: 385-390, 2 figs. [details]   

basis of record Clark, A. M.; Rowe, F. W. E. (1971). Monograph of shallow-water indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. <em>Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History).</em> 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]   

additional source Sloan, N. A.; Clark, A. M.; Taylor, J. D. (1979). The Echinoderms of Aldabra and their habitats. <em>Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist.</em> 37 (2): 81- 128. [details]   

additional source Cherbonnier, G.; Guille, A. (1978). Echinodermes: Ophiurides. <em>Faune de Madagascar, 48.</em> Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS): Paris. ISBN 2-222-02341-6. 272 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Description Colour in life: uniform grey-brown with pale brown banding on the arms, ventrally off-white overall (Sloan et al., 1979. Description: arm length to 18 mm, disc diameter to 4.5 mm. Small, delicate species with both dorsal and ventral surfaces of the disc covered with spines, which may be replaced or interspersed with flat-topped granules. Colour grey to brown with arms banded. Habitat: among coral branches or under coral.
General distribution: tropical, west-central Pacific, Indo-Malayan Region, western Indian Ocean, depth range 0-26 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); WIO, Red Sea to W Pacific (Richmond, 1998).
Also distributed in South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Remark Type data: status undetermined ?Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen (Denmark). Type locality: Fiji Ils, see Clark (1915) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

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