Revision of the genus Ophioteichus H. L. Clark, 1938 (Ophiuroidea: Ophiolepididae)
Author
Pineda-Enriquez, Tania
Author
Solis-Marin, Francisco A.
Author
Laguarda-Figueras, Alfredo
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Zootaxa
2014
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Ophioteichus multispinum
H.L. Clark, 1938
Figure 2
(A–H)
Ophioteichus multispinum
H.L. Clark, 1938
: 360
–362, pl. 25, fig. 5;
Clark and Rowe, 1971
: 129
. Non
Ophioteichus multispinum
Starmer, 2003
: 557
(=
Ophiomora elegans
Koehler, 1907
).
Type
material.
Holotype
MCZ
5306, dry (
15 mm
disc diameter,
25 mm
arm length), from Lindeman Island, Great Barrier Reef, near MacKay, Queensland,
Australia
, July, 1934, under dead coral.
Other material examined.
One specimen,
AMNH
A6749 (American Museum of Natural History), Padada Beach, Gulf of Davao, Celebes Sea, Philipines, June–July, 1936.
Diagnosis.
Disc nearly circular, higher than the arms, covered with a coat of numerous swollen, smooth plates; each plate is surrounded by a belt of smaller flat scales. Radial shields small, smooth and flat, each pair separated by two conspicuous tubercles. In each interradius the disc margin is encircled by three spherical tubercles. Accessory dorsal and ventral arms plates are fragmented; minute pores present on the lateral margins of the dorsal arm plates. Six oral papillae on each side. More than twelve short, delicate, crowded and serrated arm spines. With two or three tentacle scales that are flat and nearly equal.