Species Ophiactis profundi Lütken & Mortensen, 1899

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ophiactis profundi Lütken, C.F. & Mortensen, T. 1899. Reports on an exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and off the Galapagos Islands, in charge of Alexander Agassiz by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross, during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., comman. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 23(2): 93-208, pls 1-23 [140-142, pl. 6(4-6)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MCZ 1189 2 specimens, south east of Malpelo Island, Baja California; USNM 19516 4 specimens, south east of Malpelo Island, Baja California; USNM 19517 1 specimen, near Galapagos Islands.
• Ophiactis pteropoma Clark, H.L. 1911. North Pacific ophiurans in the collection of the United States National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 75: 1-302, figs 1-144 [134-135, fig. 50].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 25640 1 specimen (Albatross stn 4965), off Hiro Masaki Light, 350m [33°35.33'N, 135°10.8'E].
  Paratype(s) USNM 26054 1 specimen (Albatross stn 4967), Honshu Island, Shiono Misaki, North Pacific Ocean, 446-463m [33°25.17'N, 135°37.33'E]; USNM 26235 1 specimen (Albatross stn 4810), Hokkaido Island, Shirakami Point, North Pacific Ocean, 357m [41°17.333'N, 140°7'E]; USNM 26576 4 specimens (Albatross stn 4965), off Hiro Masaki Light, 350m [33°35.33'N, 135°10.8'E]; MCZ 3132 1 specimen (Albatross stn 4965), off Hiro Masaki Light, 350m [33°35.33'N, 135°10.8'E]; MCZ 3366 1 specimen (Albatross stn 4965), off Hiro Masaki Light, 350m [33°35.33'N, 135°10.8'E].
• Ophiactis profundi novaezelandiae Mortensen, T. 1924. Echinoderms of New Zealand and the Auckland-Campbell Islands. II. Ophiuroidea. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 77: 91-177 figs 1-36 pls 3-4 [128-131, fig. 13].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMUC 1 specimen, Cook Strait, New Zealand; MCZ 1637 2 specimens, Cook Strait, New Zealand.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [192-193, pl. 63(8)] (as Ophiactis profundi)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

East Pacific, Indian, Indo-Pacific, North Pacific, South Africa, South Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Norfolk Island Province (21), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

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

 

General References

Clark, A.M. & Courtman-Stock, J. 1976. The Echinoderms of Southern Africa. British Museum of Natural History Publication 766: 277 pp, 276 figs [163-164, figs 157, 162] (as Ophiactis plana)

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 [265] (as Ophiactis profundi)

Clark, H.L. 1918. Brittle–stars, old and new. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 62(6): 265-338 pls 1-8 [303] (as Ophiactis pteropoma)

Clark, H.L. 1938. Echinoderms from Australia. An account of collections made in 1929 and 1932. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 55: 1-596, figs 1-64, pls 1-28 [258] (as Ophiactis profundi var novae-zelandiae)

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 [209] (as Ophiactis profundi)

D'yakonov, A.M. 1954. Ophiuroids of the USSR Seas. Moskva-Leningrad, USSR : Akademiya Nauk Soyuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik Vol. 55 136 pp, 47 figs. [43-44] (as Ophiactis pteropoma)

Fell, H.B. 1952. Echinoderms from Southern New Zealand. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 18: 1-37 [23] (as Ophiactis profundi)

Fell, H.B. 1958. Deep-sea echinoderms of New Zealand. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 24: 1-40, pls 1-5 [26] (as Ophiactis profundi var. novaezelandiae)

Fell, H.B. 1960. Archibenthal and littoral echinoderms of the Chatham Islands: Biological results of the Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition. Bulletin of N.Z. scient. Ind. Res. 139(2): 55-74 [67] (as Ophiactis profundi var. novaezelandiae)

Guille, A. 1981. Echinodermes: Ophiurides. Mémoires de ORSTOM 91: 413-456, 4 figs, 9 pls [439-440] (as Ophiactis profundi)

Irimura, S. 1981. Ophiurans of Tanabe Bay and its vicinity, with the description of a new species of Ophiocentrus. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 26(1/3): 15-49, pl. 1 [22-23] (as Ophiactis profundi)

Koehler, R. 1909. Echinodermes provenant des campagnes du yacht 'Princesse Alice'. Rés. Sci. campagnes du Prince de Monaco 34 [173] (as Ophiactis profundi)

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 [122] (as Ophiactis profundi)

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 [154, pl. 3(9)] (as Ophiactis pteropoma)

McKnight, D.G. 1967. Additions to the echinoderm fauna of the Chatham Rise. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 1(3): 291-313 [309] (as Ophiactis profundi var. novaezelandiae)

McKnight, D.G. 1975. Some echinoderms from the northern Tasman Sea. Records of the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute 2(5): 49-76 [71] (as Ophiactis profundi)

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 [188] (as Ophiactis profundi; Unusual depth?)

Mortensen, T. 1936. Echinoidea and Ophiuroidea. Discovery Reports 12: 199-348, 53 figs, 9 pls [266] (as Ophiactis profundi var Novae-Zelandiae)

Murakami, S. 1963. The dental and oral plates of Ophiuroidea. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Zoology 4(1): 1-48 [173] (as Ophiactis profundi)

 

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