Species Ophiothrix (Acanthophiothrix) lepidus de Loriol, 1893

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ophiothrix lepidus de Loriol, P. 1893. Catalogue raisonné des Echinodermes recueillis par M.V. de Robillard à l'Île Maurice. III. Ophiurides et Astrophytides. Supplement. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 32(3): 1-64 pls 23-25 [45 pl. 25(1)].

  Type data:

   Holotype GMNH (depository uncertain), Mauritius.
• Ophiothrix lepidus hawaiiensis Clark, A.H. 1949. Ophiuroidea of the Hawaiian Islands. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 195: 3-133, figs 1-22 [41-42, fig. 15a-b].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM E7041 1 specimen (Albatross stn 3845), Molokai Island, Kaunakakai, North Pacific Ocean, 110-117m [20°59.833'N, 157°1'W].
  Paratype(s) USNM E7035 6 specimens (Albatross stn 4046), Hawaii Island, Kawaihae, North Pacific Ocean, 130-269m [20°0.5'N, 155°52.75'W]; USNM E7036 4 specimens (Albatross stn 4072), North of Maui Island, Kahului Harbor, North Pacific Ocean, 102-108m [20°58.5'N, 156°26.667'W]; USNM E7037 3 specimens (Albatross stn 4046), Hawaii Island, Kawaihae, North Pacific Ocean, 130-269m [20°0.5'N, 155°52.75'W]; USNM E7038 1 specimen (Albatross stn 3846), Molokai Island, Moku, North Pacific Ocean, 110-117m [20°59.5'N, 156°59.917'W]; USNM E7039 2 specimens (Albatross stn 3939), North of Laysan Island, North Pacific Ocean, 108-545m [25°52.583'N, 171°42.483'W]; USNM E7040 1 specimen (Albatross stn 4076), North of Maui Island, Kahului Harbor, North Pacific Ocean, 104-124m [20°58.667'N, 156°26.417'W]; USNM E7042 1 specimen (Albatross stn 3845), Molokai Island, Kaunakakai, North Pacific Ocean, 110-117m [20°59.833'N, 157°1'W].
• Ophiogymna saltatrix McKnight, D.G. 1968. Some echinoderms from the Kermadec Islands. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 2(3): 505-526 [522-525, figs 7, 8].

  Type data:

   Holotype NZOI, Star of Bengal Bank (Kermadec Ridge), N Tasman Sea.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33 Echinodermata. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia 510 pp.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Indian, Indo-Pacific, South Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

 

General References

Clark, A.H. 1952. Echinoderms from the Marshall Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 102: 265-303 [293] (as Ophiothrix lepida)

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 [281] (as Ophiothrix lepida)

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 [103-104] (as Ophiothrix lepidus)

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 [246-248, pl. 36(5), 100(3)] (as Ophiothrix lepida)

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 [143] (as Ophiothrix lepida)

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

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 [187] (as Ophiothrix lepidus)

Rowe, F.W.E. 1989. Nine new deep-water species of Echinodermata from Norfolk Island and Wanganella Bank, northeastern Tasman Sea, with a checklist of the echinoderm fauna. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 111(4): 257-291, 12 figs, 1 tbl [288] (as Ophiothrix lepidus; recognised this species as being distinct from O. purpurea)

Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33 Echinodermata. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia 510 pp. [424] (as Ophiothrix (Acanthophiothrix) lepidus)

 

History of changes

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