WoRMS taxon details
original description
Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1816). Ordre Second. Radiaires Échinodermes. <em>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres.</em> 2, 522-568., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13299296 page(s): 538; note: As Euryale asperum [details]
original description
(of Euryale euopla H.L. Clark, 1938) Clark, H. L. (1938). Echinoderms from Australia, an account of collections made in 1929 and 1932. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoöology at Harvard College.</em> 55: 1-597, 28 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4374780 [details]
original description
(of Euryale studeri de Loriol, 1900) 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
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]
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]
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Taxonomy The status of Euryale as an ophiuroid has been stabilized by Stöhr (2011) [details]From other sources
Description Description: Arm length to 30 cm, disc diameter to 6 cm. Characteristic high tubercules on dorsal side of disc and arms. Colour dark brown. Habitat: coral reefs.
General distribution: temperate and tropical, west Pacific (also Madagascar), depth range 0-290 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1998).
Also distributed in Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China and south Japan (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Spelling E. aspera in Cherbonnier & Guille (1978).
Type data: status undetermined in Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France. Type locality: Indonesia (as 'la mer des Indes') (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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