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Ophiocomella valenciae
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Ophiocomella valenciae (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Ophiocoma valenciae Müller & Troschel, 1842: 102.
Ophiocomella valenciae — O’Hara et al. 2019: 73–74, figs. 3, 6.
Habitat: Substrate not recorded, 3–4 m (Mortensen 1940).
Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman: Kish Island (7) (ibid.).
Indian Ocean: East Africa to South Africa (Ljungman 1867), Mozambique (Ludwig 1899), West Indian Ocean, Mascarene Basin and Red Sea (Clark & Rowe 1971), South Africa (Clark & Courtman-Stock 1976; Olbers et al. 2019), Madagascar (Cherbonnier & Guille 1978), Kenya (Humphreys 1981), Seychelles (Clark 1984), Scattered Isl. (Conand et al. 2016).
Remarks: Ophiocomella valenciae has the same number of spines (up to 6) at each arm joint and a lighter variegated brown color pattern than O. scolopendrina.
Notes
Published as part of Fatemi, Yaser & Stöhr, Sabine, 2019, Annotated species list of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, with new records, pp. 77-106 in Zootaxa 4711 (1) on page 84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4711.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3573466
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ophiocomidae
- Genus
- Ophiocomella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ophiurida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Muller & Troschel
- Species
- valenciae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ophiocomella valenciae (Muller, 1842) sec. Fatemi & Stöhr, 2019
References
- Muller, J. H. & Troschel, F. H. (1842) System der Asteriden. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 134 pp.
- O'Hara, T. D., Hugall, A. F., Cisternas, P. A., Boissin, E., Bribiesca-Contreras, G., Sellanes, J., Paulay, G. & Byrne, M. (2019) Phylogenomics, life history and morphological evolution of ophiocomid brittlestars. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 130, 67 - 80. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2018.10.003
- Mortensen, T. (1940) Echinoderms from the Iranian Gulf. Asteroidea, Ophiuroidea, and Echinoidea. Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran, Part 2, 55 - 112.
- Ljungman, A. V. (1867) Ophiuroidea viventia huc usque cognita. Ofversigt af Kungliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar 1866, 23, 303 - 336.
- Ludwig, H. (1899) Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 21, 537 - 563.
- Clark, A. M. & Rowe, F. W. E. (1971) Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 234 pp.
- Clark, A. M. & Courtman-Stock, J. (1976) The echinoderms of Southern Africa. British Museum, London, 277 pp.
- Olbers, J. M., Griffiths, C. L., O'Hara, T. D. & Samyn, Y. (2019) Field guide to the brittle and basket stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) of South Africa. ABCTaxa. Vol. 19. Belgian National Focal Point to the Global Taxonomy Initiative, Brussels, 346 pp.
- Cherbonnier, G. & Guille, A. (1978) 48 Echinodermes: Ophiurides. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, 272 pp.
- Humphreys, W. F. (1981) 19 The echinoderms of Kenya's marine parks and adJacent regions. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden- Afrika, Tervuren, 39 pp.
- Clark, A. M. (1984) Echinodermata of the Seychelles. In: Stoddart, D. R. (Ed.), Biogeography and Ecology of the Seychelle Islands. Monographiae Biologicae. Kluwer Academic Publisher, Dordrecht, pp. 83 - 102.
- Conand, C., Mulochau, T., Stohr, S., Eleaume, M. & Chabanet, P. (2016) Inventory of echinoderms in the Iles Eparses (Europa, Glorieuses, Juan de Nova), Mozambique Channel, France. Acta Oecologica, 72, 53 - 61. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. actao. 2015.06.007