WoRMS taxon details

Ophiocoma schoenleinii Müller & Troschel, 1842

212372  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212372)

accepted
Species
marine, 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
Distribution Also distributed in Gilbert Islands (Clark, 1954); Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, China, south Japan and...  
Distribution Also distributed in Gilbert Islands (Clark, 1954); Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore. General distribution: tropical, east Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, littoral waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2024). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiocoma schoenleinii Müller & Troschel, 1842. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212372 on 2024-11-10
Date
action
by
1997-06-25 13:20:55Z
created
2000-09-20 08:24:09Z
changed
Garcia, Maria
2007-07-18 12:17:12Z
changed

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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

original description (of Ophiocoma schoenleini Müller & 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 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Ophiactis nigrescens Hutton, 1872) Hutton, F. W. (1872). Catalogue of the echinodermata of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species. <em>Colonial Museum and Geological Department.</em> i-iv, 1-18. [details] OpenAccess publication

status source Benavides-Serrato, M.; O'Hara, T. D. (2008). A new species in the Ophiocoma erinaceus complex from the South-west Pacific Ocean (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Ophiocomidae). <em>Memoirs of Museum Victoria.</em> 65, 51-56. [details] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Distribution Also distributed in Gilbert Islands (Clark, 1954); Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore. General distribution: tropical, east Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, littoral waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Spelling O. schoenleini in Bell (1884) and Clark & Rowe (1971). By von Martens (1870) and by Marktanner-Turneretscher (1867) also treated as a synonym of O. erinaceus in Ludwig (1899).
Holotype Museum für Naturkunde an der Universität Humbolt zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany) 930. Type locality: India (as 'Indien')(Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Synonymy Only tentative. All uniformly black ophiocomas seen by Clark and Rowe are referrable to O. erinaceus. Treated as a synonym of O. scolopendrina by Ludwig (1899) . [details]
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