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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1
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.1
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1175-5326
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Ophiomusium granosum
Lyman, 1878
.
Figures 13 a, b
Ophiomusium granosum
Lyman, 1878
;
Litvinova, 1981
.
Syntypes
(2) BMNH 82.12.23.418.
Challenger
Station 237, SE Sagami Bay,
Japan
.
3429 m
.
Syntype
MCZ 451 Off
Japan
1875 m
.
Main Features
: MCZ 451:
7 mm
d.d. Disc coarsely granular, spikey at interradial margin. 5–7 sharp arm spines, midline of arms sunken dorsally and ventrally. Two pairs of exposed tentacle pores, no scale. Narrow ventral arm plates with some small tubercles. Naked oral shields, a tubercle covered plate between the oral shield and the larger interradial plate, which also has pointed tubercles. Genital slit small and alongside the proximal part of the first lateral arm plate. Dorsal arm plates also with tubercles.