Ophiomusium leptobrachium H. L. Clark, 1941

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 : 12

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6056450
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scientific name	Ophiomusium leptobrachium H. L. Clark, 1941
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Ophiomusium leptobrachium H. L. Clark, 1941 .

Figure 16 a, b, c

Holotype MCZ 6235, Atlantis Station 3363, off Puerto Cayo Moa, Cuba, 1518m.

Main Features: Disc tumid, surface a fine meshwork, not granular. Large, triangular radial shields contiguous for half their length. Large interradial plate, longer than wide. Arms narrow, dorsal arm plates small. 2–3 small arm spines. Oral shields and 1 post-shield plate dominate the ventral interradius. Two pairs of exposed tentacle pores, each with a circular scale. Oral papillae separated. Only two ventral arm plates.