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Ophiolepis cincta Müller & Troschel, 1842

213467  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213467)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Asterozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Ophiuroidea (Class)
  6. Myophiuroida (Subclass)
  7. Metophiurida (Infraclass)
  8. Ophintegrida (Superorder)
  9. Amphilepidida (Order)
  10. Ophionereidina (Suborder)
  11. Ophiolepidoidea (Superfamily)
  12. Ophiolepididae (Family)
  13. Ophiolepis (Genus)
  14. Ophiolepis cincta (Species)
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Species
Ophioelegans cincta (Müller & Troschel, 1842) · unaccepted (transferred by Liao & Clark (1995))

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marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Müller, J. and Troschel, F. H. (1842). System der Asteriden.1. Asteriae. 2. Ophiuridae. <em>Vieweg: Braunschweig.</em> xxx+134 pp. 12 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44159 [details] OpenAccess publication
Description Also distributed at 'insularum Societatis et Fidji' in Ljungman (1866); SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal,...  
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]
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiolepis cincta Müller & Troschel, 1842. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213467 on 2025-05-23
Date
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1997-04-03 13:19:51Z
created
Onyango, Eunice
2000-09-29 13:20:33Z
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Garcia, Maria
2007-07-18 12:17:12Z
checked
Stöhr, Sabine
2009-04-23 07:58:07Z
changed
Stöhr, Sabine

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Nomenclature

original description Müller, J. and Troschel, F. H. (1842). System der Asteriden.1. Asteriae. 2. Ophiuridae. <em>Vieweg: Braunschweig.</em> xxx+134 pp. 12 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44159 [details] OpenAccess publication

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] 

Other

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  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
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]
LanguageName 
Japanese ダンゴクモヒトデ  [details]
To Barcode of Life (32 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications) 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ophiolepis cincta) 
To GenBank (41 nucleotides; 27 proteins) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (47 records) 

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