Species Ophioconis cupida Koehler, 1905

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ophioconis cupida Koehler, R. 1905. Ophiures littorales. Siboga Expéditie Monographie 45(b): 1-142, pls 1-18 [15-16, pl. 1(19-20)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMA E2004, E2005, E2035 5 specimens, Moluccas, Indonesia and Sulu Archipelago, Philippines.

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Ophioconus cupida Koehler, 1905 [misspelling of generic name]. —
  Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33 Echinodermata. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia 510 pp. [399]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indian, Indo-Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Cape Province (20), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, inshore, marine.

 

General References

Cherbonnier, G. & Guille, A. 1978. Faune de Madagascar. 48. Echinodermes: Ophiurides. Paris : Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 272 pp, 77 figs, 17 pls. [222-223, pl. 16(3-4)] (as Ophioconis cupida)

Clark, A.M. & Rowe, F.W.E. 1971. Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. London : Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) 238 pp. 100 figs 31 pls. [88-89, 127, pl. 21(4)] (as Ophioconis cupida; discuss similiarities and possible synonymy with Ophioconus forbesi Heller, 1863, Ophioconus cincta Brock, 1888 and Ophioconus permixta Koehler, 1905; Ophioconus cupida Koehler, 1905 is almost certainly conspecific with Ophioconus cincta Brock, 1888)

Clark, H.L. 1915. Catalogue of recent ophiurans: based on the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 25(4): 165-376, pls 1-20 [219] (as Ophioconis cupida)

Clark, H.L. 1918. Brittle–stars, old and new. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 62(6): 265-338 pls 1-8 [332-333] (as Ophiurodon cupida)

Clark, H.L. 1932. Echinodermata (other than Asteroidea) of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928–29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4(7): 197-239 figs 1-9 pl. 1 [203] (as Ophiurodon cupidum; 1 specimen from stn 15)

Clark, H.L. 1939. Ophiuroidea. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition 6(2): 29-136, figs 1-62 [95-96] (as Ophiurodon cupidum)

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 [255] (as Ophioconis cupidum)

Koehler, R. 1930. Ophiures recueillies par le Docteur Th. Mortensen dans les Mers d'Australie et dans l'Archipel Malais. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 89: 1-295 pls 1-22 [278] (as Ophiurodon cupidum)

Marsh, L.M. 1986. Echinoderms. In Faunal surveys of the Rowley Shoals, Scott Reef and Seringaham Reef, north-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 25: 63-74 [72] (as Ophioconis cupida)

Matsumoto, H. 1915. A new classification of the Ophiuroidea: with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 67(1): 43-92 [85] (as Ophiurodon cupida)

Matsumoto, H. 1917. A monograph of Japanese Ophiuroidea, arranged according to a new classification. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo 38(2): 1-408, figs 1-100, pls 1-7 [315] (as Ophiurodon cupida)

Murakami, S. 1943. Report on the ophiurans of Palao, Caroline Islands. Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Kyushu Imperial University 7(4): 159-204 figs 1-17 [186] (as Ophiurodon cupidum)

Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33 Echinodermata. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia 510 pp. [399] (as Ophioconus cupida)

Stöhr, S., Conand, C. & Boissin, E. 2008. Brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from La Reunion and the systematic position of Ophiocanops Koehler, 1922. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153(3): 545-560 [556] (as Ophioconis cupida)

 

History of changes

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