Species Ophionereis hexactis H.L. Clark, 1938
Compiler and date details
2012 - Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
- Ophionereis hexactis 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 [324-325].
Type data:
Holotype MCZ 5205, East Point, Darwin, NT.
Paratype(s) MCZ 5206 6 specimens; MCZ 5208 2 specimens; AM J6238 2 specimens, Darwin, NT.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indian, Indo-Pacific, South Pacific
IMCRA
Lord Howe Province (14), Timor Province (2), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Province (6)
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, continental shelf, inshore, marine.
General References
Clark, A.M. 1953. A revision of the genus Ophionereis (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 123(1): 65-94 figs 1-12 pls 1-3 [69] (as Ophionereis hexactis; mentioned in key that presumable genital papillae are absent)
Clark, A.M. & Rowe, F.W.E. 1971. Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. London : Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) 238 pp. 100 figs 31 pls. [88-89, fig. 56f-I] (as Ophionereis hexactis)
Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 [240] (as Ophionereis hexactis)
Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33 Echinodermata. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia 510 pp. [408] (as Ophionereis hexactis)
History of changes
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