Ophioconis Lütken, 1869

Fatemi, Yaser & Stöhr, Sabine, 2019, Annotated species list of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, with new records, Zootaxa 4711 (1), pp. 77-106 : 100-101

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Genus Ophioconis Lütken, 1869

Ophioconis Lütken, 1869: 70 ; A. M. Clark 1965: 63–64.

Ophiurodon Matsumoto, 1915: 86 View in CoL .

Ophiurodon View in CoL sp.— Mortensen 1940: 100.

Habitat: Coral-gravel and shells, 33 m ( Mortensen 1940).

Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman: Stiffe’s Bank (28) (ibid.).

Indian Ocean: n/a

Remarks: Ophiurodon was synonymized with Ophioconis by A. M. Clark (1965). Mortensen (1940) stated that his single specimen was in such a poor condition that he could not identify the species. Assuming that his generic identification was correct, this is the only record of Ophioconis from the Persian Gulf. Three species of Ophioconis are known from the Indian Ocean, O. permixta ( Clark 1965) , O. cincta and O. cupida ( Clark & Rowe 1971) , although O. permixta may be conspecific with O. cincta ( Clark 1965) .

References

Clark, A. M. (1965) Japanese and other ophiuroids from the collections of the Munich museum. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 13 (2), 39 - 71.

Clark, A. M. & Rowe, F. W. E. (1971) Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 234 pp.

Lutken, C. F. (1869) Additamenta ad historiam Ophiuridarum. 3. Beskrivende og kritiske Bidrag til Kundskab om Slangestjernerne. Det kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, 5, 24 - 109. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 1408

Matsumoto, H. (1915) A new classification of the Ophiuroidea: with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 67, 43 - 92.

Mortensen, T. (1940) Echinoderms from the Iranian Gulf. Asteroidea, Ophiuroidea, and Echinoidea. Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran, Part 2, 55 - 112.