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 laqueatum
(Lyman, 1878)
.
Figures 54
a, b
Ophiomusium laqueatum
Lyman, 1878
; Matsumoto, 1917.
Holotype
,
BMNH
82.12.23.417,
Challenger
station 192, between Teniber and Aru Ids, Arafura Sea,
236 m
;
MCZ
3085.
Main features
: Disc
14 mm
diameter, covered with small imbricating scales, large, smooth radial shields dominant, and separated by many scales. Diamond-shaped dorsal arm plates large and throughout arm. Lateral plates with 4 arm spines, 3 clumped together low down, and one smaller spine isolated dorsally. Small supplementary lateral arm plates present.
Small oral shield, ventral interradial area with about 10 large rounded plates. Oral papillae block-like and only fused distally. Genital slits reach from adoral plates to disc edge and are noticeably wider at their distal end. Three pairs of exposed tentacle pores, the first two larger than the third. Each with an oval scale.