Ophiuroidea taxon details
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
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
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]
From editor or global species database
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