Ophiomusium mirandum Koehler, 1930

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 : 16

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.