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 alecto
A. H. Clark, 1936
.
Figures 2
a, b
Holotype
USNM
E0005197, north of
Puerto Rico
,
183–549 m
, RV
Caroline,
Johnson-Smithsonian Deep Sea Expedition
March 1933
.
Main Features
: Disc diameter
4 mm
, disc circular. Arms
8 mm
. Dorsal surface dominated by primary plates and radial shields. A large interradial plate present. First 5 dorsal arm plates swollen, remainder low and hardly visible. 3–4 arm spines, lower and middle ones longest.
Two ventral arm plates, 2 pairs of exposed tentacle pores, genital slits long and raised at edges, sinuous.