Ophiomastix elegans Peters

Sastry, D. R. K., Marimuthu, N. & Rajan, Rajkumar, 2019, Echinodermata of Lakshadweep, Arabian Sea with the description of a new genus and a species, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119 (4) : -

Ophiomastix elegans Peters

(Pl. VI. Fig. f)

1851. Ophiarthrum elegans Peters, W. Ber. K. Press. Akad. Wiss. 1851: 463

1971. Ophiarthrum elegans : Clark, A.M. and Rowe, F.W.E. Monograph of shallow-water Indo-West Pacific echinoderms, p. 120 (key), p. 86-87 (distribution).

2007. Ophiarthrum elegans : Sastry, D.R.K. Rec. zool.Surv. IndiaOcc. Paper No. 271: 112.

2019. Ophiomastix elegans : O‘Hara, T. D.; Hugall, A. F.; Cisternas, P. A.; Boissin, E.; Bribiesca-Contreras, G.; Sellanes, J.; Paulay,

G.; Byrne, M. Molecular Phylogenetic and Evolution (2019). 130: 72 (also WoRMS)

Material: AGE-12. Dt. 06.02.2018. One spec. BWN18-

53. Dt. 20.11.2018. One spec.

Remark: Disc scales naked. Black on upper and lower sides. Arms banded white and black on upper side, or with dark brown spots, lower side white.

Distribution: Lakshadweep, Andamans and Nicobars. Elsewhere: Lakshadweep to South PacificIslands. The species is newly recorded from Lakshadweep.