Species Amphiophiura spatulifera Koehler, 1922
Compiler and date details
2012 - Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
- Amphiophiura spatulifera Koehler, R. 1922. Contributions to the biology of the Philippine Archipelago and adjacent regions. Ophiurans of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 100(5): 1-486, pls 1-103 [365-368, pl. 82(5-8,13)].
Type data:
Lectotype USNM 41074 1 specimen (Albatross stn 5274), Lubang Island, Sala Point, North Pacific Ocean, 960m [13°57.5´N 120°3.417´E].
Paralectotype(s) USNM 41075 1 specimen (Albatross stn 5425), West of Cagayan Islands, Cagayan Island, Sulu Sea, North Pacific Ocean, 905m [9°37.75´N 121°11´E].
Distribution
States
Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-Pacific, South Pacific
IMCRA
Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2)
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, marine.
General References
Guille, A. 1981. Echinodermes: Ophiurides. Mémoires de ORSTOM 91: 413-456, 4 figs, 9 pls [449, pl. 7(44-45)] (as Amphiophiura spatulifera ?)
Guozhen, L. 1987. Deep-sea ophiurans in the South China Sea. Nanhai Studia Marina Sinica 8: 143-153, pl. 1 [148, fig. 6, pl. 1(8)] (as Amphiophiura spatulifera)
McKnight, D.G. 1975. Some echinoderms from the northern Tasman Sea. Records of the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute 2(5): 49-76 [62] (as Amphiophiura spatulifera)
McKnight, D.G. 1993. Records of echinoderms (excluding holothurians) from the Norfolk Ridge and Three Kings Rise north of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 20: 165-190 [175, 188] (as Amphiophiura spatulifera)
History of changes
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