Ophiocomella valenciae ( Müller & Troschel, 1842 )
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4711.1.3 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5624627 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B0960F-FFBA-FF92-E0D4-2DF8249DBD18 |
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Plazi |
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Ophiocomella valenciae ( Müller & Troschel, 1842 ) |
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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 .
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Ophiodermatina |
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Ophiocomella valenciae ( Müller & Troschel, 1842 )
| Fatemi, Yaser & Stöhr, Sabine 2019 |
Ophiocoma valenciae Müller & Troschel, 1842: 102
| Muller, J. H. & Troschel, F. H. 1842: 102 |