Ophiocomella valenciae ( Müller & Troschel, 1842 )

Fatemi, Yaser & Stöhr, Sabine, 2019, Annotated species list of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, with new records, Zootaxa 4711 (1), pp. 77-106 : 84

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4711.1.3

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5624627

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Ophiocomella valenciae ( Müller & Troschel, 1842 )
status

 

Ophiocomella valenciae ( Müller & Troschel, 1842)

Ophiocoma valenciae Müller & Troschel, 1842: 102 .

Ophiocomella valenciae — O’Hara et al. 2019: 73–74 , figs. 3, 6.

Habitat: Substrate not recorded, 3–4 m ( Mortensen 1940).

Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman: Kish Island (7) (ibid.).

Indian Ocean: East Africa to South Africa ( Ljungman 1867), Mozambique ( Ludwig 1899), West Indian Ocean, Mascarene Basin and Red Sea ( Clark & Rowe 1971), South Africa ( Clark & Courtman-Stock 1976; Olbers et al. 2019), Madagascar ( Cherbonnier & Guille 1978), Kenya ( Humphreys 1981), Seychelles ( Clark 1984), Scattered Isl. ( Conand et al. 2016).

Remarks: Ophiocomella valenciae has the same number of spines (up to 6) at each arm joint and a lighter variegated brown color pattern than O. scolopendrina .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Ophiuroidea

Order

Ophiurida

Family

Ophiocomidae

Genus

Ophiocomella

Loc

Ophiocomella valenciae ( Müller & Troschel, 1842 )

Fatemi, Yaser & Stöhr, Sabine 2019
2019
Loc

Ophiocoma valenciae Müller & Troschel, 1842: 102

Muller, J. H. & Troschel, F. H. 1842: 102
1842
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