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 altum
Koehler, 1904
.
Figure 3 a, b
Ophiomusium altum
Koehler, 1904
;
H. L. Clark, 1939
.
Syntypes
(3)
RMNH
V.Ech.
O
.2045,
Siboga
Station 76, Makassar Straits,
Indonesia
,
2029 m
. Other material examined:
1 specimen
BMNH
1948
-5-26-16-364, Gulf of Aden, John Murray Expedition Station 26, 2312 m.,
2 specimens
BMNH
1948
-5-26-365,
Zanzibar
, John Murray Expedition station 118, 1789 m.
Main Features
: Disc
5 mm
diameter, inflated, highest point is the rosette plates and the central plate has a central prominence. There are 2 pairs of exposed tentacle pores with one scale on each. Arms are thin with long joints, carrying 4 small and closely set arm spines. A second, smaller specimen is with the
holotype
, but is not labelled as a
type
specimen.