Ophiuroids (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) of biogenic habitats on the continental shelf of New Zealand Author Mills, V. Sadie Author O'Hara, Timothy D. text Zootaxa 2013 3613 5 401 444 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.5.1 a5297387-6a6d-4097-b501-65d6f2c5ee2a 1175-5326 222703 5F3AB0E7-FB06-4099-9C17-D87E3454376F Clarkcoma bollonsi (Farquhar, 1908) Ophiocoma bollonsi Farquhar, 1908: 108 .—Clark, H.L., 1915a: 293.—Clark, H.L., 1921: 132.—Mortensen, 1924: 120–122, fig. 9.—Mortensen, 1936: 260.—Fell, 1952: 24.—Fell, 1958: 29.—McKnight, 1967a: 305–306. Ophiotreta valenciennesi .—Koehler, 1930: 66–67 (in part).—Clark, H.L., 1946: 187 [Non Ophiotreta valenciennesi (Lyman T, 1879) ; see O'Hara, 1990]. Ophiocoma canaliculata .—Madsen, 1967: 142 [Non Clarkcoma canaliculata (Lütken C F, 1869) ; see O'Hara, 1990]. Clarkcoma bollonsi .—Devaney, 1970: 5–9, figs. 4,5,10,12,14.—Fenwick & Horning, 1980: 440.—Rowe, 1985: 67–68, pl. 2(3–8).—O'Hara, 1990: 294.—McKnight, 1993b: 194, 199.—Rowe & Gates, 1995: 383. Material Examined . Bay of Islands . TAN0906/60, NIWA 77840 (1); NIWA 55181 (3). TAN0906/181, NIWA 57142 (3). TAN0906/236, NIWA 57412 (4). TAN0906/240, NIWA 57509 (9); NIWA 77841 (3). East Coast North Island . TAN1108/253, NIWA 77873 (1). TAN1108/268, NIWA 77809 (4); NIWA 77872 (3). Far North . TAN0906/152, NIWA 56473 (1). TAN0906/162, NIWA 56715 (1); NIWA 77853 (1). North Canterbury . TAN1108/5, NIWA 74009 (2). TAN1108/24, NIWA 74170 (1). Otago . TAN1108/53, NIWA 74260 (3). TAN1108/ 66, NIWA 77805 (20). TAN1108/108, NIWA 74665 (2). TAN1108/117, NIWA 74739 (8). TAN1108/122, NIWA 74812 (23). TAN1108/131, NIWA 74858 (1). TAN1108/138, NIWA 74913 (6). TAN1108/148, NIWA 74794 (10). Stewart Island . TAN1108/77, NIWA 77799 (1); NIWA 77874 (1). TAN1108/96, NIWA 74592 (9). TAN1108/102, NIWA 74630 (4). Three Kings Islands . TAN1105/35, NIWA 77871 (1). TAN1105/53, NIWA 77870 (1). West Coast North Island . TAN1105/104, NIWA 77864 (1). TAN1105/115, NIWA 73740 (2). Diagnosis . Disc plates covered in small rounded granules, occasionally elongated near arm base, absent from proximal ventral disc area. Seven thin, flattened arm spines, middle 3–4 longest (as long as 4 arm segments) sometimes with thickened club on end of spine, spines decreasing in length ventrally. Adoral shields meet proximally to oral shield. Two leaf-like tentacle scales throughout arm. Disc, arms and arm spines dark red when live, pale grey or brown when preserved. Description . See Mortensen (1924). Distribution . New Zealand ( 1–366 m ), Gascoyne Seamount ( 143 m ), southern Australia ( 9–630 m ).