WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Ophidiaster vestitus Perrier, 1869) Perrier, E. (1869). Recherche sur les pédicellaires et les ambulacres des astérides et des oursins. <em>Thèses présentées à la Faculté des Sciences de Paris pour obtenir le Grade de Docteur ès Sciences Naturelles Victor Masson et fils, Paris.</em> 5-188, plates 1-7., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13976641 page(s): 62 [details]
original description
(of Echinaster fallax Muller & Troschel, 1842) 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 page(s): 23 [details]
original description
(of Othilia purpurea Gray, 1840) Gray, J.E. (1840). XXXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (<i>Asterias</i>, Linnaeus). <em>Annals of the Magazine of Natural History.</em> 6: 275-290., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2336044#page/309/mode/1up page(s): 282 [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]
From other sources
Description Colour in life: golden brown to dark brown with large irregular brown markings transversely on arms (Humphreys, 1981).
General distribution: Red Sea and indian Ocean from Mozambique to the Bay of Bengal (Tortonese, 1980).
Also distributed in Ceylon and Bay of Bengal (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details]
Remark In subgenus (Othilia) in(Tortonese (1949). [details]
From editor or global species database
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