Species Ophiocreas sibogae Koehler, 1904

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ophiocreas sibogae Koehler, R. 1904. Ophiures de mer profonde. Siboga-Expéditie Report 45(a): 1-176 pls 1-36 [165-166, pls 32(9-11), 36(1)].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMA E2507 (designated by Baker (1980)), east of Banda Sea, Indonesia [5°28'04"S, 132°0'02"E].
  Paralectotype(s) ZMA E2034, E2506, E2508 93 specimens, Siboga stns 251, 150, 297, Indonesia.
• Ophiocreas longipes 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 [102-104, fig. 1(2), 2b, pl. 3].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMUC (depository uncertain), off Three Kings Is., New Zealand.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Baker, A.N. 1980. Euryalinid Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from Australia, New Zealand, and the south-west Pacific Ocean. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 7: 11-83 figs 1-33 [28-30, fig. 7, 30] (as Ophiocreas sibogae)

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific, South Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Southern Province (8)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental slope, marine.

 

General References

Baker, A.N. 1982. Brittle-stars (Class Ophiuroidea). Adelaide : South Australian Government 418-437-10 figs pl. 29(3-4). [425, fig. 10:14] (as Ophiocreas sibogae)

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 [178] (as Ophiocreas sibogae)

Clark, H.L. 1916. I. Report on the sea-lilies, starfishes, brittle-stars and sea-urchins obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia. Endeavour Research 4(1): 1-123 figs 1-11 pls 1-44 [80] (as Ophiocreas sibogae)

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 [175] (as Ophiocreas sibogae)

Dartnall, A.J. 1980. Tasmanian Echinoderms. Fauna of Tasmania Handbook No. 3. Hobart : Fauna of Tasmania Committee 82 pp. 36 figs 5 pls. [39, 68] (as Ophiocreas sibogae)

Döderlein, L. 1927. Indopacifische Euryalae. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 31(6): 1-105 pls 1-10 [99] (as Asteroschema (Ophiocreas) sibogae)

Döderlein, L. 1930. Die Ophiuroiden der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. 2. Euryale. Deutsche Tiefsee-Expedition 1898–1899 22(6): 349–396, figs 1–24, pls 14–16 [391] (as Asteroschema (Ophiocreas) sibogae)

Fell, H.B. 1958. Deep-sea echinoderms of New Zealand. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 24: 1-40, pls 1-5 [21] (as Ophiocreas longipes)

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 [174, 186] (as Ophiocreas sibogae)

McKnight, D.G. 2000. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Basket-stars and snake-stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Euryalinida). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 115: 1-79 [35-36, fig. 14, pl. 13] (as Ophiocreas sibogae)

Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33 Echinodermata. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia 510 pp. [358-359] (as Ophiocreas sibogae)

 

History of changes

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