Shallow-water reef ophiuroids (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) of Réunion (Mascarene Islands), with biogeographic considerations
Author
Boissin, Emilie
Author
Hoareau, Thierry B.
Author
Paulay, Gustav
Author
Bruggemann, J. Henrich
text
Zootaxa
2016
4098
2
273
297
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4098.2.4
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Ophiocomella sexradia
(DUNCAN, 1887)
(UF-6491,
Fig.
4
g,
KU594363
)
Material.
1 spm, St. 5; 1 spm, St. 8
Remarks.
This small (DD =
2 mm
) species is the only known ophiocomid with six arms. Specimens have small elongate granules on the dorsal surface of the disc, three to four arm spines, and are mottled green and whitish. Abundance: 1.
Distribution.
Widespread across the IWP (
Clark & Rowe 1971
), previously recorded from
Réunion
(
Guille & Ribes 1981
;
Stöhr
et al.
2008
) and Rodrigues (
Rowe & Richmond 2004
).