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
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1175-5326
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Ophiomusium mirandum
Koehler, 1930
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Figures 23 a, b
Holotype
ZMUC
OPH-
501, Kei Expedition Station 59, eastern Banda Sea,
388 m
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Main Features
: Thick disc with large radial shields occupying two thirds of the disc radius, shields completely separated by 5 plates. Large pear-shaped oral shields and large interradial plates. Very short but wide triangular dorsal arm plates throughout arm. Four small arm spines, 2 low, 2 high basally. Two elongate pairs of exposed tentacle pores, each with one long scale on the aboral side and a rim-like scale on the opposite side. Ventral arm plates present to the end of the arms.