Amphiura brevispina Marktanner-Turneretscher 1887 ...

• Main Authors: O'Hara, Timothy D., Thuy, Ben
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea; Amphilepidida; Amphiuridae; Amphiura; Amphiura brevispina; Indian; Saint-Paul; Île Amsterdam
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6404738; https://zenodo.org/record/6404738

Amphiura brevispina Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1887 Amphiura brevispina Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1887: 301, pl. 12(14–15).— Koehler 1907b: 299. Amphiura capensis .—Clark, A.M. 1976: 258–259 [Non Amphiura ( Amphiura ) capensis Ljungman, 1867]. Distribution . SPA (0–2 m). Remarks . A.M. Clark (1976) identified small amphiurids collected from the coastal zone around Île Saint-Paul and Île Amsterdam as the South African species Amphiura capensis , apparently unaware that an earlier species A. brevispina Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1887 had been described from Île Saint-Paul on the Novara expedition in 1857 and later collected by the La Dive expedition in 1872 (Koehler 1907b). The two species are very similar, having oblong proximally divergent radial shields, 1/6 dd in length, small disc scales, often sparser near the oral shields, DAPs slightly wider than long, one small tentacle scale, spear-head-shaped oral shields and a small conical adoral shield spine (distal oral papilla). There are generally 4–5 small arm ... : 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 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5124.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6404674 ...