Ophiosabine cuspidata O'Hara & Thuy 2022, comb. nov. ...

• Main Authors: O'Hara, Timothy D., Thuy, Ben
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea; Ophiacanthida; Ophiacanthidae; Ophiosabine; Ophiosabine cuspidata; Arctic; Indian; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Saint-Paul
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6404712; https://zenodo.org/record/6404712

Ophiosabine cuspidata (Lyman 1878b) comb. nov. Fig. 6C–E Ophiacantha cuspidata Lyman, 1878b: 143, pl. 10(248–250).— Lyman 1882: 191–192, pl. 15(9–10), 41(12–14).— Mortensen 1933c: 31–33, fig. 17–18(a–c), pl. 3(3–4).— Martynov & Litvinova 2008: fig. 7d. Material examined . MD 50 DC49, MNHN IE.2009.1558 (1). MD 50 DC91, MNHN IE.2009.1559 (1). MD 50 CP152, MNHN IE.2009.1560 (2). MD 50 CP178, MNHN IE.2009.1561 (1). Distribution . Arctic (781–1505 m), NE Atlantic (1315–2669 m), W Atlantic (274– 274 m), E Atlantic (781– 1236 m). SPA (880–1275 m). Remarks . The new specimens are very similar to the types of O. cuspidata found off Ascension Is (781 m) on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (see Martynov & Litvinova 2008, fig. 7D). They have relatively sparse but long elongate disc spines with thorns diverging at the tip, radial shields marked by a furrow and small exposed distal section, four oral papillae, the outmost widened (sometimes with a groove), pentagonal oral shields, with obtuse proximal margins and a large ... : Published as part of O'Hara, Timothy D. & Thuy, Ben, 2022, Biogeography and taxonomy of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from the Îles Saint- Paul and Amsterdam in the southern Indian Ocean, pp. 1-49 in Zootaxa 5124 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5124.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6404674 ...