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Ophiothela venusta (de Loriol, 1900)

213400 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213400)

accepted
Species
Ophiothela beauforti (Engel, 1949) · unaccepted (synonym acc. to A.M. Clark (1974))
Ophiothela nuda (H.L. Clark, 1923) · unaccepted (synonym acc. to Cherbonnier &...)  
synonym acc. to Cherbonnier & Guille (1978)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of ) de Loriol, P. (1900). Notes pour servir à l'étude des Echinodermes. VIII. <em>Revue Suisse de Zoologie.</em> 8, 55-96 pls 6-9., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9971606#page/67/mode/1up [details] 
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiothela venusta (de Loriol, 1900). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213400 on 2026-07-16
Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Ophiothela venusta (de Loriol, 1900). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213400 on 2026-07-16
Date
action
by
1997-11-12 01:36:06Z
created
2000-09-20 08:24:09Z
changed
Garcia, Maria
2007-07-18 12:17:12Z
checked

original description (of Ophiopsammium nudum H.L. Clark, 1923) Clark, H. L. (1923). The Echinoderm fauna of South Africa. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 13(7): 221-435, 23 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1541222#page/263/mode/1up
page(s): 341 [details] 

original description (of ) de Loriol, P. (1900). Notes pour servir à l'étude des Echinodermes. VIII. <em>Revue Suisse de Zoologie.</em> 8, 55-96 pls 6-9., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9971606#page/67/mode/1up [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 Humphreys, W.F. (1981). The echinoderms of Kenya's marine parks and adjacent regions. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Africa (Tervuren, Belgium) Zoologische Documentatie 19. 39 pp. (look up in IMIS) [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

additional source Clark, A. M. (1974). Notes on some echinoderms from southern Africa. <em>Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology).</em> 26(6): 423-487, 3 pls, 16 figs, 1 map, 3 tables., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2294231 [details] 

redescription Peyghan, S.; Doustshenas, B.; Nabavi, S. M. B.; Rounagh, M. T.; Larki, A. A.; Stöhr, S. (2018). New records of the brittle stars <em>Ophiothela </em><em>venusta </em>and <em>Ophiactis </em><em>modesta </em> (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the northern Persian Gulf, with morphological details. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4527(3): 425-435., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4527.3.11 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
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