New records of brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the Lakshadweep atolls, northern Indian Ocean, with notes on Indophioderma ganapatii Sastry, Marimuthu & Rajan, 2019

Usha V. Parameswaran; B. Mohammed Nowshad; Sudhanshu Dixit; Hashim Manjebrayakath; K. K. Idreesbabu; N. Saravanane

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4809.3.9

New records of brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the Lakshadweep atolls, northern Indian Ocean, with notes on Indophioderma ganapatii Sastry, Marimuthu & Rajan, 2019

Usha V. Parameswaran^*
, B. Mohammed Nowshad
, Sudhanshu Dixit
, Hashim Manjebrayakath
, K. K. Idreesbabu
, N. Saravanane

^*Corresponding author for this work

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The paper presents three new records of brittle stars for Indian waters, collected from the Lakshadweep atolls (northern Indian Ocean)-Ophiarachnella septemspinosa (Müller & Troschel, 1842), Ophiocoma cynthiae Benavides-Serrato & O'Hara, 2008 & Ophiomoeris obstricta (Lyman, 1878). Further, this paper also discusses the validity of two recently described taxa from this archipelago, the genus Indophioderma with the species Indophioderma ganapatii Sastry, Marimuthu & Rajan, 2019. A checklist of brittle stars reported so far from the Lakshadweep Islands is provided, which includes 40 valid species-32 from shallow (reef) areas and 8 deep-sea (>200m) species.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	560-570
Number of pages	11
Journal	Zootaxa
Volume	4809
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4809.3.9
State	Published - 8 Jul 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

Biodiversity
Coral reefs
Indian Ocean
Lakshadweep

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Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Animal Science and Zoology

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New records of brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the Lakshadweep atolls, northern Indian Ocean, with notes on Indophioderma ganapatii Sastry, Marimuthu & Rajan, 2019

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