Asteroidea taxon details
original description
Lütken, C. (1871). Fortasatte kritiske og beskrivende Bidrag til Kundskab om Sostjernerne (Asteriderne). <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening.</em> 1871: 227-304., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35853627 page(s): 277 [details]
original description
(of Ophidiaster germani Perrier, 1875) Perrier, E. (1875). Révision de la collection de stellérides du Museum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris. Paris, Reinwald. 384 p., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044107304818&view=1up&seq=338 page(s): 130 [details]
original description
(of Ophidiaster robillardi de Loriol, 1885) de Loriol, P. (1885). Catalogue raisonné des Échinodermes recueillis par M.V. de Robillard à l'Ile Maurice. 2. Stellérides. <em>Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève.</em> 29(4): 1-84., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36249317 page(s): 24 [details]
context source (HKRMS)
Morton, B. & Morton, J. (1983). <i>The sea shore ecology of Hong Kong</i>. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 350 pp. [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
Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. <em>In: Wells, A.; Houston, W.W.K. (Ed.) Zoological catalogue of Australia, 33. CSIRO: Melbourne. ISBN 0-643-05696-3. XIII.</em> 510 pp. [details]
Unreviewed
Distribution Also distributed in Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore. General distribution: tropical Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-5 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Remark Syntypes (probable) in Zoologisches Museum für Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany) No. 1244, Natural History Museum, London (England) 1874.10.5.25. Type locality: Tonga, SW Pacific Ocean (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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