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Ophiambix epicopus Paterson & Baker 1988
Description
Ophiambix epicopus Paterson & Baker, 1988
(New Japanese name: Sharin-kaede-kumohitode)
Ophiambix epicopus Paterson & Baker, 1988: 1589–1590, figs. 2a–d, h, i, 3g–i, 4.
Material examined. NSMT E-13035, 1 specimen, ethanol, collected with beam trawl by the T /S TOYOSHIO MARU, To-03, St. 11, north of Kuroshima Island, Kerama Island Group, Ryukyu Islands, Okinawa Prefecture, southwest of Japan, 26°19.18′N, 127°25.56′E, 596–606 m, 24 May 2003 (Fig. 1).
Distribution. Japan: north of Kuroshima Island, Kerama Islands (present study); New Zealand: northwest of Napier Island, Kermadec Islands (Paterson & Baker, 1988). Depth range 530– 606 m. This is a new record of the present species from Japanese waters.
Notes
Published as part of Okanishi, Masanori, Kato, Moe, Watanabe, Hiromi Kayama, Chen, Chong & Fujita, Toshihiko, 2020, Large populations of two new species of Ophiambix (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) discovered on Japanese hot vents and cold seeps, pp. 196-213 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68 on page 197, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2020-0017, http://zenodo.org/record/4576654
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NSMT , T, TOYOSHIO, MARU
- Event date
- 2003-05-24
- Family
- Ophiuridae
- Genus
- Ophiambix
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ophiurida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Paterson & Baker
- Species
- epicopus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2003-05-24
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ophiambix epicopus Paterson, 1988 sec. Okanishi, Kato, Watanabe, Chen & Fujita, 2020
References
- Paterson GLJ & Baker AN (1988) A revision of the genus Ophiambix (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) including the description of a new species. Journal of Natural History, 22: 1579 - 1590.