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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Ophiomusium lunare
Lyman, 1878
.
Figures 20
a, b
Ophiomusium lunare
Lyman 1878
;
Guille & Vadon, 1986
.
Holotype
BMNH
82.12.23.399
Challenger
Station 219, Admiralty Is,
274 m
.
Main Features
: The disc is covered with smooth plates and larger, separated radial shields. There are large interradial plates with two longer than wide plates between it and the central rosette. Dorsal arm plates small, triangular, wider than long. Lateral arm plates slightly tumid, with 3–4 small arm spines (note: the arm spines are absent from about halfway up the arms in the
holotype
). Two large ventral arm plates excavated each side for two pairs of exposed tentacle pores, each with an elongated scale. Distal ventral arm plates very small. Large, proximally pointed oral shields adjoining the interradial plate.