Revision of the genus Ophioteichus H. L. Clark, 1938 (Ophiuroidea: Ophiolepididae) Author Pineda-Enriquez, Tania Author Solis-Marin, Francisco A. Author Laguarda-Figueras, Alfredo text Zootaxa 2014 3784 3 241 250 journal article 46110 10.11646/zootaxa.3784.3.3 387c7ad0-0415-4506-95ac-328af4c0d99e 1175-5326 227855 B8060DE4-3F37-4801-B428-B0C473F8CE80 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.