Amphiura (Amphiura) pusilla Farquhar, 1897

Mills, V. Sadie & O'Hara, Timothy D., 2013, Ophiuroids (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) of biogenic habitats on the continental shelf of New Zealand, Zootaxa 3613 (5), pp. 401-444 : 415-416

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.5.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5F3AB0E7-FB06-4099-9C17-D87E3454376F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5691451

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EA8790-112F-FFA2-FF4A-66C8D092FF4A

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Amphiura (Amphiura) pusilla Farquhar, 1897
status

 

Amphiura (Amphiura) pusilla Farquhar, 1897

Amphiura pusilla Farquhar, 1898: 191 , pl. 14(1–3).—Clark, H.L., 1915a: 235.—Mortensen, 1924: 152–153, fig. 26(1–2).—Fell, 1958: 27.—McKnight, 1993b: 194, 199.

Monamphiura pusilla .—McKnight, 1967a: 311.

Material Examined. Bay of Islands. KAH0907/195, NIWA 77877 (1).

Diagnosis. Scaled dorsally and ventrally. Oral shield with rounded margins. 5–6 bluntly pointed arm spines, reducing to 4 then 3 distally, as long as an arm segment, except for dorsal-most spine, which is shorter. Single large leaf-like tentacle scale.

Description. See Mortensen (1924).

Distribution. New Zealand (9–140 m).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Ophiuroidea

Order

Ophiurida

Family

Amphiuridae

Genus

Amphiura

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Ophiuroidea

Order

Ophiurida

Family

Amphiuridae

Genus

Amphiura

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF