WoRMS taxon details
Ophiomyxa australis Lütken, 1869
212437 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212437)
accepted
Species
Ophiodera brevispina (v. Martens, 1870) · unaccepted (synonym)
Ophiomyxa brevipina von Martens, 1870 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Ophiomyxa brevispina v. Martens, 1870 · unaccepted
Ophiomyxa brevispina var. irregularis Koehler, 1898 · unaccepted
Ophiomyxa irregularis Koehler, 1905 · unaccepted
Ophiomyxa robillardi de Loriol, 1893 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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]
Description Colour in life: ranging from uniform light orange to uniform blood-red to disc blood-red with arms distally banded with...
Description Colour in life: ranging from uniform light orange to uniform blood-red to disc blood-red with arms distally banded with yellow (Sloan et al., 1979. Description: Arm length to 10 cm. Dorsal surface of the disc smooth. Arms cylindrical with dorsal plates reduced, embedded in naked skin. Colour bright red with pale bands on arms. Habitat: lower eulittoral and shallow reefs.
Also recoreded in Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991); possibly circumaustralian although not recorded from Gulf of Carpentaria or north (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
General distribution: Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 183-1006 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); from East Africa to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1998); East coast of Africa to western Pacific Ocean (Sastry, 1991).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, continental slope (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Also recoreded in Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991); possibly circumaustralian although not recorded from Gulf of Carpentaria or north (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
General distribution: Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 183-1006 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); from East Africa to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1998); East coast of Africa to western Pacific Ocean (Sastry, 1991).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, continental slope (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiomyxa australis Lütken, 1869. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212437 on 2025-04-04
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Nomenclature
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 Ophiomyxa robillardi de Loriol, 1893) Loriol, P. de. (1893). Catalogue raisonné des Echinodermes recueillis par M.V. de Robillard à l'Ile Maurice. III. Ophiurides et Astrophytides. <em>Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. nat. Gèneve.</em> 32(3), 1-63, pls 23-25., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36188778 [details]
original description (of Ophiomyxa brevispina v. Martens, 1870) Martens, E. v. (1870). Die Ophiuriden des indischen Oceans. <em>Arch. für Naturgeschichte.</em> 36: 244-262., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7082127 [details]
original description (of Ophiomyxa irregularis Koehler, 1905) Koehler, R. (1905). Ophiures de l'expédition du Siboga. Part 2. Ophiures littorales. <em>Siboga Expeditie.</em> 45b, 1-140., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12109322 [details]
original description (of Ophiomyxa brevipina von Martens, 1870) Martens, E. v. (1870). Die Ophiuriden des indischen Oceans. <em>Arch. für Naturgeschichte.</em> 36: 244-262., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7082127 [details]
original description (of Ophiomyxa brevispina var. irregularis Koehler, 1898) Koehler, R. (1898). Echinoderms recueillis par l'Investigator dans l'Ocean Indien, II. Les Opiures littorales. <em>Bulletin scientifique de la France et de la Belgique.</em> 31, 55-126, pl. 2-5., available online at http://iris.univ-lille1.fr/handle/1908/2295 [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]
original description (of Ophiomyxa robillardi de Loriol, 1893) Loriol, P. de. (1893). Catalogue raisonné des Echinodermes recueillis par M.V. de Robillard à l'Ile Maurice. III. Ophiurides et Astrophytides. <em>Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. nat. Gèneve.</em> 32(3), 1-63, pls 23-25., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36188778 [details]
original description (of Ophiomyxa brevispina v. Martens, 1870) Martens, E. v. (1870). Die Ophiuriden des indischen Oceans. <em>Arch. für Naturgeschichte.</em> 36: 244-262., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7082127 [details]
original description (of Ophiomyxa irregularis Koehler, 1905) Koehler, R. (1905). Ophiures de l'expédition du Siboga. Part 2. Ophiures littorales. <em>Siboga Expeditie.</em> 45b, 1-140., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12109322 [details]
original description (of Ophiomyxa brevipina von Martens, 1870) Martens, E. v. (1870). Die Ophiuriden des indischen Oceans. <em>Arch. für Naturgeschichte.</em> 36: 244-262., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7082127 [details]
original description (of Ophiomyxa brevispina var. irregularis Koehler, 1898) Koehler, R. (1898). Echinoderms recueillis par l'Investigator dans l'Ocean Indien, II. Les Opiures littorales. <em>Bulletin scientifique de la France et de la Belgique.</em> 31, 55-126, pl. 2-5., available online at http://iris.univ-lille1.fr/handle/1908/2295 [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]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Mah, C.L.; McKnight, D.G.; Eagle, M.K.; Pawson, D.L.; Améziane, N.; Vance, D.J.; Baker, A.N.; Clark, H.E.S.; Davey, N. (2009). Phylum Echinodermata: sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, sea lilies. In: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 371-400. [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]
additional source Mah, C.L.; McKnight, D.G.; Eagle, M.K.; Pawson, D.L.; Améziane, N.; Vance, D.J.; Baker, A.N.; Clark, H.E.S.; Davey, N. (2009). Phylum Echinodermata: sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, sea lilies. In: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 371-400. [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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Colour in life: ranging from uniform light orange to uniform blood-red to disc blood-red with arms distally banded with yellow (Sloan et al., 1979. Description: Arm length to 10 cm. Dorsal surface of the disc smooth. Arms cylindrical with dorsal plates reduced, embedded in naked skin. Colour bright red with pale bands on arms. Habitat: lower eulittoral and shallow reefs. Also recoreded in Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991); possibly circumaustralian although not recorded from Gulf of Carpentaria or north (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
General distribution: Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 183-1006 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); from East Africa to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1998); East coast of Africa to western Pacific Ocean (Sastry, 1991).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, continental slope (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
Spelling Genus misspelled 'Lophiomyxa' in Vine (1986)??.
Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: Bass Strait (as '... inter Australian et Tasmaniam') (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | キヌハダクモヒトデ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (43 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ophiomyxa australis)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (1 record) (from synonym Ophiodera brevispina (v. Martens, 1870))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (42 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (6 records) (from synonym Ophiomyxa irregularis Koehler, 1905)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (43 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ophiomyxa australis)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (1 record) (from synonym Ophiodera brevispina (v. Martens, 1870))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (42 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (6 records) (from synonym Ophiomyxa irregularis Koehler, 1905)
