Ophiocreas carnosum Lyman 1879
Authors/Creators
- 1. Museum Victoria, GPO Box 666 E, Melbourne, 3001, AUSTRALIA, tohara @ museum. vic. gov. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8231 - 9565
- 2. Museum Victoria, GPO Box 666 E, Melbourne, 3001, AUSTRALIA, tohara @ museum. vic. gov. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8231 - 9565 & National Museum of Natural History Luxembourg, 25, rue Münster, L- 2160 Luxembourg, ben. thuy @ mnhn. lu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0885 - 6578 & Museum Victoria, GPO Box 666 E, Melbourne, 3001, AUSTRALIA, tohara @ museum. vic. gov. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8231 - 9565
Description
Ophiocreas carnosum Lyman, 1879
Ophiocreas carnosus Lyman, 1879: 63, pl. 16(435 – 438). — Lyman, 1882: 281, pl. 31(1 – 4). — Seid et al., 2025: 162, fig. 62d – f.
Ophiocreas carnosum. — Clark, H.L., 1915: 177.
Ophiocreas japonicus. — McKnight, 2000: 30 – 32, fig. 11, pl. 10. — Okanishi & Fujita, 2013: 568 [Non Ophiocreas japonicus Koehler R, 1907].
STUDY MATERIAL. — JC066: stn 4-37, Coral seamount, 41° 21.7673´S, 42° 54.9067´E to 41° 22.4´S, 42° 54.6´E, 740 m, 20/11/2011: 1 (NHMUK 2025.23) (DNA code= JC066-695).
COMPARATIVE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Ophiocreas carnosum Lyman, 1879: Región de Ñuble, Treguaco, 36° 25.2336´S, 73° 42.16896´W, 624 m, 18/10/2010, UCN 4250 (DNA code= UCN4250). AT37-13/AD4923, Costa Rica Parrita Seep, 8° 58.555´N, 84° 37.4298´W, 1097 m, 6/6/2017, identified by Seid et al. (2025) as Ophiocreas carnosus, SIO E 7072 (DNA code= SIO E7072). KANADEEP2/ PL744 _PBT-Q-1, Munida, 23° 5.17´S, 168° 15.048´E, 1093 m, 14/9/2019, MNHN IE.2019.2949 (DNA code= IE.2019.2949). Marion Toothfish Survey / T35, between Prince Edward and Marion Island, 46° 44.6´S, 38° 4´E to 46° 43.6´S, 37° 45.4´E, 298 m, 24/4/2001, SAMC MB-A83258 (DNA code= A83258). NA064/005, Galapagos Is marine park, 1° 12.825136´N, 91° 5.412714´W, 1154 m, 27/6/2015 (DNA code=NA064-005-01-01-A). NA064/034, Galapagos Is marine park, 1° 40.564´N, 91° 41.263´W, 974 m, 28/6/2015 (DNA code=NA064-034-01-01-A). TN228/J2-385-005, Z27 Seamount, Huon, 44° 14.715´S, 147° 7.276´E, 1060 m, 21/12/2008, MV F168738 (DNA code= TOH _0908).
COMPARATIVE MATERIAL NOT EXAMINED. Ophiocreas carnosum Lyman, 1879: NZOI / Z9592, 48° 33.06´S, 164° 57.03´E, 940 – 1180 m, 30/11/1998, identified by McKnight (2000) as Ophiocreas japonicus, NIWA 48407. TRIP2494 /14, 47° 32.8´S, 177° 49.7´E to 47° 33.1´S, 177° 49.7´E, 867 – 915 m, 2/9/2007, identified by Okanishi & Fujita (2013) as Ophiocreas japonicus, NIWA 49793 (DNA code= AB758816).
Distribution. New Caledonia (1093 m), E Pacific (974 – 1886 m), S America (250 – 940 m), Marion Is (298 m), S Australia (810 – 1060 m), New Zealand (867 – 915 m), Coral Seamount (740 m).
Remarks. The large (19 mm dd) JC066 specimen is covered in thick fleshy skin without any hint of embedded granules or ossicles. DNA evidence indicates that this species occurs around the Southern Ocean, including on Marion Island and Southern Chile which are south of the Subtropical Front and as North as New Caledonia in the SW Pacific and Costa Rica in the East Pacific (Seid et al. 2025).
Okanishi & Fujita (2013) submitted a COI sequence to NCBI (AB758816) as O. japonicus collected off New Zealand, which appears to be a chimeric sequence, with the first section aligning with our O. carnosum sequences and the second half of unknown origin. McKnight (2000) also recorded a specimen of O. japonicus from New Zealand. This specimen was described as having thick wrinkled skin and is also likely to be O. carnosum.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- STUDY, MATERIAL
- Material sample ID
- JC066
- Event date
- 2011-11-20
- Verbatim event date
- 2011-11-20
- Scientific name authorship
- Lyman
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Order
- Euryalida
- Family
- Euryalidae
- Genus
- Ophiocreas
- Species
- carnosum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ophiocreas carnosum Lyman, 1879 sec. O'Hara & Thuy, 2025
References
- Lyman, T. (1879) Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae of the exploring voyage of H. M. S. Challenger, under Prof. Sir Wyville Thomson, F. R. S. Part 2. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 6, 17-83, pls. 11 - 19.
- Lyman, T. (1882) Ophiuroidea. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the Challenger Zoology, 5, 1-385, pls. 1 - 48.
- Seid, C. A., Hiley, A. S., McCowin, M. F., Carvajal, J. I., Cha, H., Ahyong, S. T., Ashford, O. S., Breedy, O., Eernisse, D. J., Goffredi, S. K., Hendrickx, M. E., Kocot, K. M., Mah, C. L., Miller, A. K., Mongiardino Koch, N., Mooi, R., O'Hara, T. D. & Pleijel, F. (2025) A faunal inventory of methane seeps on the Pacific margin of Costa Rica. ZooKeys, 1222, 1-250. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1222.134385
- McKnight, D. G. (2000) The marine fauna of New Zealand: Basket-stars and snake-stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Euryalinida). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, 115, 1-79.
- Okanishi, M. & Fujita, T. (2013) Molecular phylogeny based on increased number of species and genes revealed more robust family-level systematics of the order Euryalida (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 69, 566-580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2013.07.021