Ophiolepis cincta Müller & Troschel, 1842

[Japanese name: Dango-kumohitode]

(Fig. 8H)

Ophiolepis cincta Müller & Troschel 1842: 90 .— Lütken 1859: 101, pl. 2 figs 6a–b.— Lyman 1865: 60; 1882: 19, pl. 37 figs 7– 9.— Brock 1888: 475.— Bell 1888: 388.— Duncan 1889: 86.—de Loriol 1893b: 398.— Koehler 1898: 67; 1905: 16–17; 1907a: 287; 1930: 260.— Mortensen 1933: 382, 383.— H. L. Clark 1915: 342; 1921: 143; 1946: 273.— Matsumoto 1917: 299, 300, fig. 81.— Murakami 1943a: 183; 1943b: 210, 211.— A. H. Clark 1949: 294.— A. M. Clark 1952: 298.— McKnight 1968: 713; 1989b: 27.— A. M. Clark & Rowe 1971: 90 –91, 129, fig. 46c, pl. 22, fig. 2.— Devaney 1974: 186, 187. A. M. Clark & Courtman-Stock 1976: 189, 190, fig. 196.— Cherbonnier & Guille 1978:232 –234, fig. 74A–G.— Sloan et al. 1979: 115 –117, fig. 22.— Marsh 1986: 72.— Guille & Vadon 1986: 169.— Marsh et al. 1993: 62.— Nomura 1993: 26.— Rowe & Gates 1995: 432.— Liao & A. M. Clark 1995: 292, 293, fig. 163.— Price & Rowe 1996: 79.—Okanishi 2016: 669.— T. Fujita 2016: 622, 624, Figs 2 A–B.

Ophioelegans cincta . James 1981: 15 –17, pl. 1A; 1989: 112.

Ophiolepis garretti Lyman 1861: 77, 78; 1865: 61–62, pl. 2 fig. 4.

Material examined. Ie Island (RUMF-ZE-02057[1], RUMF-ZE-02058[1]): “Unnamed cave”, “entrance” of the cave, under coral rubble, approximately 18 m depth, 24 June 2017.

Distribution. Widely distributed in Indo-West Pacific. Depth range 0– 278 m.

Remarks. This specimen is identified as Ophiolepis cincta by virtue of having: symmetrically arranged disc scales, larger ones surrounding smaller ones regularly, on aboral disc; small supplementary plates forming transverse row on distal edge of each dorsal arm plate (e.g. A. M. Clark & Rowe, 1971).