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
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1175-5326
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Amphiura
(
Amphiura
)
spinipes
Mortensen, 1924
Amphiura spinipes
Mortensen, 1924: 134
–136, fig. 15b, 16.—Mortensen, 1936: 267.—Fell, 1952: 15.
Material Examined
.
Otago
. TAN1108/117, NIWA 77768 (2).
Diagnosis
. Disc finely scaled dorsally and ventrally. Six, rarely 7 arm spines, reducing to 5 by mid-arm. Ventral-most arm spine elongated, slender and downward projecting on mid arm segments. Single, large, leaf-like tentacle scale.
Description.
See Mortensen (1924).
Distribution.
New Zealand
(
22–1378 m
).
Remarks.
See A
mphiura
magellanica
.