Ophiomusium fallax Koehler 1904

Baker, Alan N., 2016, An illustrated catalogue of type specimens of the bathyal brittlestar genera Ophiomusium Lyman and Ophiosphalma H. L. Clark (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea), Zootaxa 4097 (1), pp. 1-40 : 10

Ophiomusium fallax Koehler 1904 .

Figures 12 a, b

Ophiomusium fallax Koehler, 1904 ; H. L. Clark, 1915.

Synypes (3), RMNH V.Ech. O. 6342, Siboga Station 156, NW of Palau Belau, S of Philippines, 469 m.

Main Features: Disc covered with similar-sized plates, radial shields only slightly larger. Dorsal midline of arms sunken, lateral arm plates bulbous, with small, low dorsal arm plates present. Koehler did not record the dorsal arm plates, but they are present all in 3 type specimens. No exposed tentacle pores or ventral arm plates.

Figures

FIGURE 12. Ophiomusium fallax RMNH V. Ech. O 6342: a, b, dorsal and ventral disc sectors. FIGURE 13. Ophiomusium granosum MCZ 451: a, b, dorsal and ventral disc sectors.