Species Ophiolimna perfida (Koehler, 1904)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ophiacantha perfida Koehler, R. 1904. Ophiures de mer profonde. Siboga-Expéditie Report 45(a): 1-176 pls 1-36 [118-119, pl. 23(5-6)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMA E2581 1 specimen (Siboga stn 45), Flores Sea, south of Pelokang, 794m [7°24'S, 118°15.2'E]; ZMA E2531 10 specimens (Siboga stn 52), Flores, western Sawu Sea, 959m [9°3.4'S, 119°56.7'E]; ZMA E2582 2 specimens (Siboga stn 85), Makassar Strait, west of Donggala, Sulawesi, 724m [0°36.5'S, 119°29.5'E]; ZMA E2583 1 specimen (Siboga stn 159), Irian Jaya, eastern Halmahera Sea, 411m [0°59.1'S, 129°48.8'E]; ZMA E2584 4 specimens (Siboga stn 178), Seram Sea, 835m [2°40'S, 128°37.5'E]; ZMA E2585 1 specimen (Siboga stn 266), Kapulauan Kai (Kei Islands), 595m [5°56.5'S, 132°47.7'E]; ZMA E2586 14 specimens (Siboga stn 314), Bali Sea, Kepulauan Tengah, 694m [7°36'S, 117°30.8'E]; ZMA E2587 1 specimen (Siboga stn 316), Bali Sea, north of Lombok, 538m [7°19.4'S, 116°49.5'E]; MOM (Siboga stn 52), Flores, western Sawu Sea, 959m [9°3.4'S, 119°56.7'E]; MCZ 1986 1 specimen (Siboga stn 52), Flores, western Sawu Sea, 959m [9°3.4'S, 119°56.7'E].
• Ophiacantha lambda 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 [231-232, fig. 108].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 25722 1 specimen (Albatross stn 4957), SW of Shikoku Island, Okino Island, North Pacific Ocean, 799m [32°36'N, 132°23'E].
  Paratype(s) MCZ 3212 2 specimens (Albatross stn 4957), SW of Shikoku Island, Okino Island, North Pacific Ocean, 799m [32°36'N, 132°23'E].

 

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 [64-66, pl. 9(7-9), 92(6)] (as Ophiolimna perfida)

 

Generic Combinations

• Ophiolimna perfida (Koehler, 1904).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northwest Transition (3)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental slope, marine.

 

General References

Clark, A.M. 1977. South African Museum's Meiring Naude cruises. 4 Echinoderms. Annals of the South African Museum 73(6): 133-147 [139-140] (as Ophiolimna sp. ? O. perfida)

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 [199] (as Ophiacantha lambda)

Guille, A. 1981. Echinodermes: Ophiurides. Mémoires de ORSTOM 91: 413-456, 4 figs, 9 pls [431-433] (as Ophiolimna perfida)

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 Ophiolimna lambda)

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 [103] (as Ophiolimna lambda)

O'Hara, T.D. & Stöhr, S. 2006. Deep water Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) of New Caledonia: Ophiacanthidae and Hemieuryalidae. Tropical Deep Sea Benthos 193: 33-141 [67-68, fig. 6h-j] (as Ophiolimna perfida)

 

History of changes

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