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
1
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 relictum
Koehler, 1904
.
Figures 28
a, b
Ophiomusium relictum
Koehler, 1904
;
Stöhr, 2011
.
Ophiomusa relicta
Hertz, 1927
.
Syntype
RMNH V.Ech.
O
. 2050.1
Siboga
station 156, west of Waigeo, Halmhera Sea,
469 m
and station 88, west of
Palau
, Makassar Strait,
1301m
.
Main Features
: Disc diameter <
9 mm
. Disc wrinkled, with large plates standing high from the surface. Large hexagonal central plate, radial shields small, divergent, separated proximally and distally, abutting only at about half length. Interradial plates roughened at edges. Lateral arm plates raised dorsally, with a groove in the dorsal midline. Dorsal plates small, longer than wide. Two ventral arm plates each with a pair of circular exposed tentacle pores. Four small arm spines. Genital slits small, extending between adoral shield and first lateral arm plate.