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
1bdc9f90-79e0-4265-b8b7-9057618b36db
1175-5326
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Ophiomusium longispinum
Koehler,1930
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Figure 18
a, b
Syntypes
(2) ZMUC OPH-500, Pacific Expedition station 7, North Banda Sea,
196 m
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Main Features
: Even-sized plates on disc apart from large interradials and oval radial shields. Interradial plates are ribbed. Arm spines almost a segment long, and present on dorsal surface of lateral arm plates. Two pairs of exposed tentacle pores each with a large scale. Shield-shaped oral shields, with many smaller plates between it and disc margin.
Ventral arm plates visible until the 6th arm segment.