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Ophiomusium mirandum Koehler 1930
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Description
Ophiomusium mirandum Koehler, 1930.
Figures 23 a, b
Holotype ZMUC OPH- 501, Kei Expedition Station 59, eastern Banda Sea, 388 m.
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.
Notes
Published as part of Baker, Alan N., 2016, An illustrated catalogue of type specimens of the bathyal brittlestar genera Ophiomusium Lyman and Ophiosphalma H. L. Clark (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea), pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 4097 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/270988
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Koehler
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Order
- Ophiurida
- Family
- Ophiolepididae
- Genus
- Ophiomusium
- Species
- mirandum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ophiomusium mirandum Koehler, 1930 sec. Baker, 2016
References
- Koehler, R. (1930) Ophiures recueilles par le Docteur Th. Mortensen dans les Mers d'Australie et dans l'Archipel Malais. Videnskabelige Meddeleser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, 89, 1 - 295, pls 1 - 22