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
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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
).