Ophioculina Rousseau & Thuy, 2018

Rousseau, Julie, Gale, Andrew Scott & Thuy, Ben, 2018, New articulated asteroids (Echinodermata, Asteroidea) and ophiuroids (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) from the Late Jurassic (Volgian / Tithonian) of central Spitsbergen, European Journal of Taxonomy 411, pp. 1-26 : 16

Ophioculina Rousseau & Thuy gen. nov.

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Type species

Ophioculina hoybergia Rousseau & Thuy gen. et sp. nov., by original designation.

Diagnosis

Dorsal disc with numerous, small, thin scales. Well-developed arm comb. Tentacle pores developed as between-plate openings pointing ventro-distalwards until median arm then reduced to within-plate perforations.

Etymology

From the Latin ‘ culina ’, kitchen, since most of the specimens where discovered accidentally while clearing a surface area for the kitchen tent of the 2010 field camp.