Ophiomusium morio Koehler, 1922

Baker, Alan N., 2016, An illustrated catalogue of type specimens of the bathyal brittlestar genera Ophiomusium Lyman and Ophiosphalma H. L. Clark (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea), Zootaxa 4097 (1), pp. 1-40 : 18

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6056468

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C57E0C-A76D-ED35-B0CD-FEF8FBFDA731

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scientific name

Ophiomusium morio Koehler, 1922
status

 

Ophiomusium morio Koehler, 1922 .

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Holotype USNM 40993 Albatross station 5392 Between Samar and Masbate, Philippines, 246m.

Main Features: Rigid skeleton and stiff arms. Moderately large, slightly tumid disc plates and radial shields. The shields separated from one another by 3 elongated plates Three of the 5 oral shields split proximally. Unusual hoof-shaped genital slits. Dorsal arm plates throughout arm, only 2 ventral plates. Arm joints constricted. Two pairs of very small exposed tentacle pores, each with a single scale. Two small arm spines.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

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