WoRMS name details
original description
Verrill, A. E. (1869). On New and imperfectly known Echinoderms and Corals. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural HIstory.</em> 12: 381-391., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9494023#page/389/mode/1up page(s): 391 [details]
context source (HKRMS)
Wai, T. C., Ng, W. C., Leung, K. M. Y. & Williams, G. A. (2011). Stock and ecological status of echinoderms in Hong Kong: evaluation of effectiveness of marine protected areas using sea urchins as model organism. Final report. Submitted to the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, The Hong Kong SAR Government. [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
Jangoux, M & C. Massin. (1986). Catalogue commenté des types d'Echinodermes actuels conservé dans les collections nationales belges, Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. : Biologie (56): 83-97 [details]
additional source
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
Alitto, R. A. S.; Granadier, G.; Christensen, A. B.; O'Hara, T.; Di Domenico, M.; Borges, M. (2020). Unravelling the taxonomic identity of Ophiothela Verrill, 1867 (Ophiuroidea) along the Brazilian coast. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 1-14., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s002531542000034x [details]
From editor or global species database
Synonymy The synonymy was proposed by Alitto et al. (2020) and is here implemented early, because it resolves a confusing matter. However, the taxonomic act is strictly not valid until final publication of the article. [details]From other sources
Description Colour in life: colour dimorphism, disc uniformly bright orange or with radial shields white, dorsal arm surface orange near disc and then fading to white towards tips, arms ventrally off white, some arms dorsally pale throughout others purple with purple and white banded arms, purple bands wider (2-5 segments) than white bands (1-2 segments). Humphreys, 1981. Arm length to 2 cm, disc diameter 3-4 mm. Very small, and usually with 6 flexible arms. Colour variable depending on substrate, typically blue with white pattern or completely yellow. Habitat; often wrapped around gorgonians or soft corals on shallow reefs and deeper.
Also distributed in SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, W India, Pakistan, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); India (Sastry, 1996).
General distribution: tropical, temperate, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-80 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1998).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Remark Syntypes in Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) No.2492 (9 specimens) and No. 2631., Type locality: Fiji Is. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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