Species Ophiactis picteti (de Loriol, 1893)
Compiler and date details
2012 - Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
- Ophiocnida picteti de Loriol, P. 1893. Echinodermes de la Baie d'Amboine. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 1: 359-426 pls 13-15 [405 pl 14(2)].
Type data:
Holotype GMNH (depository uncertain), Amboina, Indonesia. - Ophiactis sinensis Mortensen, T. 1934. Echinoderms from Hong Kong. Hong Kong Naturalist Suppl. 3: 3-14, 8 pls [11-13, figs. 7-9, pl. 1(3)].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Liao, Y. & Clark, A.M. 1995. The echinoderms of southern China. Beijing : Science Press 614 pp., 23 pls. [216] (as Ophiactis picteti)
Generic Combinations
- Ophiactis picteti (de Loriol, 1893).
Distribution
States
Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Off Port Walcott WA; Indo-Malayan Region, Madagascar, western Indian Ocean. Depth range 0-50 m
IMCRA
Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, 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. [123-125, fig. 56(A-D)] (as Ophiactis picteti)
Clark, H.L. 1918. Brittle–stars, old and new. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 62(6): 265-338 pls 1-8 [295] (as Amphiactis picteti)
Koehler, R. 1898. Échinodermes, receuillis par l'Investigator dans l'Océan Indien. II. Les ophiures littorales. Bulletin Scientique de la France et de la Belgique 31: 55-124, pls 2-5 [67-68] (as Ophiocnida picteti)
Sloan, N.A., Clark, A.M. & Taylor, J.D. 1979. The echinoderms of Aldabra and their habitats. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 37(2): 81-128 figs 1-22 [101-102] (as Ophiactis picteti)
History of changes
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