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
1
1
40
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.1
1bdc9f90-79e0-4265-b8b7-9057618b36db
1175-5326
270988
CD767562-3A19-4F4C-914D-80C50AD0D250
Ophiomusium microporum
H. L. Clark, 1941
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Figures 22
a, b, c
Holotype
MCZ
6236,
Atlantis
station 3384, Old
Bahama
Channel,
Cuba
,
530m
Main Features
: Disc tumid with a few large scales. Radial shields are wide and separated only proximally. They slope up markedly towards the disc centre. Large marginal interradial plate, notched along edge. Oral shield and interradial plate dominate ventral interradius.
Genital slits extend to the end of the first ventral arm plate. Two pairs of exposed tentacle pores, one scale. Six ventral arm plates, the first two of which are large. Four long arm spines basally, upper 2 separated from lower 2. Underside of arm flat. Arms finely tuberculate.