Ophiocoma scolopendrina (Lamarck)

Sastry, D. R. K., Marimuthu, N. & Rajan, Rajkumar, 2019, Echinodermata of Lakshadweep, Arabian Sea with the description of a new genus and a species, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119 (4) : -

Ophiocoma scolopendrina (Lamarck)

(Pl. VI. Fig. e)

1816. Ophiura scolopendrina Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de. Histoire

Naturelle des animaux sans vertebres. 2: 544.

1971. Ophiocoma scolopendrina : Clark. A.M. and Rowe, F.W.E. Monograph of shallow-water Indo-West Pacific echinoderms, p. 119 (key), p. 86-87 (distribution).

1991. Ophiocoma scolopendrina : Sastry, D.R.K. State Fauna Series 2: Fauna of Lakshadweep. p. 381.

2007. Ophiocoma scolopendrina : Sastry, D.R.K. Rec. zool. Surv. India Occ. Paper No. 271: 117.

Material: KA-22 . Dt. 14.02.2018. One spec. KVN-28. Dt. 05.12.2018. One juvenile spec. Arm spines 4 and 3, oral side white .

Distribution: Lakshadweep, Tamil Nadu, Andamans and Nicobars. Elsewhere: Indo-west Pacific from Red Sea, Persian Gulf and East Coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands.