A new brooding species of brittle-star (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from Antarctic waters

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Martín-Ledo, Rafael, Sands, Chester, López-González, Pablo J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2013
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Shag Rocks; Antarc*; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/18215/; http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/456/art%253A10.1007%252Fs00300-012-1242-z.pdf?auth66=1360922107_e1ff980181b306f9bff28ee8cf135865&ext=.pdf

A new brittle star attributable to the genus Ophiacantha is described from Antarctic waters, in the diffuse limits of the Antarctic Polar Front at Shag Rocks, South Georgia. The new species can be differentiated from its Southern Ocean congeners by the striations on the arm plates. Several adult ind...