Ophiambix epicopus Paterson & Baker 1988

• Main Authors: Okanishi, Masanori, Kato, Moe, Watanabe, Hiromi Kayama, Chen, Chong, Fujita, Toshihiko
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• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea; Ophiurida; Ophiuridae; Ophiambix; Ophiambix epicopus; Napier Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4576648; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C087C9910FFFD4FC48F997FBE9F7AA

Ophiambix epicopus Paterson & Baker, 1988 (New Japanese name: Sharin-kaede-kumohitode) Ophiambix epicopus Paterson & Baker, 1988: 1589–1590, figs. 2a–d, h, i, 3g–i, 4. Material examined. NSMT E-13035, 1 specimen, ethanol, collected with beam trawl by the T /S TOYOSHIO MARU, To-03, St. 11, north of Kuroshima Island, Kerama Island Group, Ryukyu Islands, Okinawa Prefecture, southwest of Japan, 26°19.18′N, 127°25.56′E, 596–606 m, 24 May 2003 (Fig. 1). Distribution. Japan: north of Kuroshima Island, Kerama Islands (present study); New Zealand: northwest of Napier Island, Kermadec Islands (Paterson & Baker, 1988). Depth range 530– 606 m. This is a new record of the present species from Japanese waters. Published as part of Okanishi, Masanori, Kato, Moe, Watanabe, Hiromi Kayama, Chen, Chong & Fujita, Toshihiko, 2020, Large populations of two new species of Ophiambix (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) discovered on Japanese hot vents and cold seeps, pp. 196-213 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68 on page 197, DOI:10.26107/RBZ-2020-0017, http://zenodo.org/record/4576654