An illustrated catalogue of type specimens of the bathyal brittlestar genera Ophiomusium Lyman and Ophiosphalma H. L. Clark (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea)
Author
Baker, Alan N.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4097
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.1
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1175-5326
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Ophiosphalma elii
(A. H. Clark, 1949)
.
Figures 49
a, b
Ophiomusium elii
Clark, 1949
Holotype
USNM
E7124,
Albatross
Station 4096, SE Coast of Maui Id, Hawaii,
497–
523 m
.
Main Features
: Small (
6 mm
d.d) pentagonal disc, raised above, flat below. Covered with many thick imbricating scales. Radial shields small, separated and divergent. Upper and ventral arm plates present throughout arms. Ventral interradii with 7–8 plates and small pentagonal oral shields. Genital slits remote from oral shields. Oral papillae not separated. 3 pairs of exposed tentacle pores with 1 large scale. 4, occasionally 5 short stout arms spines, the lower 3 of which become single-hooked distally. This specimen is very similar to
O
. valdiviae
Koehler.