Ophiomyxa vivipara Studer 1876 ...

• Main Authors: O'Hara, Timothy D., Thuy, Ben
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea; Ophiacanthida; Ophiomyxidae; Ophiomyxa; Ophiomyxa vivipara; Pacific; Indian; New Zealand; Saint-Paul; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6404728; https://zenodo.org/record/6404728

Ophiomyxa vivipara Studer, 1876 Fig. 13A–B Ophiomyxa vivipara Studer, 1876: 462.— Mortensen 1933a: 301–304, fig. 27–29. Ophiomyxa vivipara var capensis Mortensen 1936: 242. Ophiomyxa vivipara capensis .— Olbers et al. 2019: 155–156, fig. 146–147. Material examined . MD 50 CP7, MNHN IE.2009.1605 (6). MD 50 DC108, MNHN IE.2009.1606 (24). MD 50 CP145, MNHN IE.2009.1607 (3). Distribution . S America (6–507 m), W Atlantic (94–156 m), S Africa (80–755 m), W Indian (373–1179 m), E Indo-W Pacific (385–888 m), S Australia (522–2170 m), New Zealand (150–1408 m). SPA (460–1680 m). Remarks . The numerous MD 50 specimens (Fig. 13A–B) measure up to 11.8 mm dd and have the thin ovalto-trapezoid perforated unfragmented DAPs that cover the vertebrae that are diagnostic for the O. vivipara - O. serpentaria Lyman, 1883 complex of species (see Mortensen 1933c, fig. 1–2). Analysis of COI sequences (O’Hara et al. 2014), showed that O. serpentaria specimens from the North Atlantic form a distinct clade to O. vivipara , as do ... : 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 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5124.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6404674 ...