Annotated species list of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, with new records
Author
Fatemi, Yaser
Author
Stöhr, Sabine
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-12-13
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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
.