Ophiactis macrolepidota Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1887

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 : 95

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Ophiactis macrolepidota Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1887: 298 , pl. 12, figs 12, 13; Rowe & Gates 1995: 379.

Ophiactis parva Mortensen, 1926: 123 , Rowe & Gates 1995: 379.

Habitat: Substrate not recorded, 29 m ( Mortensen 1940).

Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman: Kuh-Mobarak (14) (ibid.).

Indian Ocean: Suez Canal ( Mortensen 1926), Red Sea ( Clark & Rowe 1971), Scattered Isl. ( Conand et al. 2013, 2016).

Remarks: The taxonomic status of this species may need to be revised with molecular methods. The current synonymy was proposed by Rowe in Rowe & Gates (1995) with a brief statement but no actual data. The included species ( O. macrolepidota , O. acosmeta H. L. Clark, 1938 , O. parva , O. delicata H. L. Clark, 1915 ) originate from widely separate parts of the world and show morphological differences, but the type material consists of small, probably immature specimens that are heavily affected by fission (Stöhr, unpublished observation), which makes them difficult to compare.

References

Clark, H. L. (1915) Catalogue of recent Ophiurans. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 25, 163 - 376.

Clark, H. L. (1938) Echinoderms from Australia. An account of collections made in 1929 and 1932. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., 55, 1 - 596, pls. 1 - 28. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 49349

Clark, A. M. & Rowe, F. W. E. (1971) Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 234 pp.

Conand, C., Stohr, S., Eleaume, M., Magalon, H. & Chabanet, P. (2013) The Echinoderma fauna of Europa, Eparses island (scattered islands) in the Mozambique channel (South Western Indian Ocean). Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 54, 499 - 504.

Conand, C., Mulochau, T., Stohr, S., Eleaume, M. & Chabanet, P. (2016) Inventory of echinoderms in the Iles Eparses (Europa, Glorieuses, Juan de Nova), Mozambique Channel, France. Acta Oecologica, 72, 53 - 61. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. actao. 2015.06.007

Marktanner-Turneretscher, G. (1887) Beschreibung neuer Ophiuriden und Bemerkungen zu bekannten. Annalen des k. k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, 2, 291 - 316. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 29076

Mortensen, T. (1926) Cambridge Expedition to the Suez Canal in 1924. 6 - Report on the Echinoderms. Transactions of the Zoological Society London, 22, 117 - 131. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1926. tb 00326. x

Mortensen, T. (1940) Echinoderms from the Iranian Gulf. Asteroidea, Ophiuroidea, and Echinoidea. Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran, Part 2, 55 - 112.

Rowe, F. W. E. & Gates, J. (1995) Echinodermata. In: Wells, A. (Ed.), Zoological Catalogue of Australia. CSIRO Australia, Melbourne, pp. 1 - 510.