Amphiodia (Amphispina) microplax Burfield, 1924

Fatemi, Yaser & Stöhr, Sabine, 2019, Annotated species list of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, with new records, Zootaxa 4711 (1), pp. 77-106 : 97

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4711.1.3

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5624698

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scientific name

Amphiodia (Amphispina) microplax Burfield, 1924
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Amphiodia (Amphispina) microplax Burfield, 1924

Amphiodia microplax Burfield, 1924: 146 .

Amphiodia (Amphispina) microplax —A. M. Clark 1970: 25 .

Habitat: Clay and sand, 12–69 m ( Mortensen 1940).

Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman: Khoor Mousa (30), Strait of Hormuz (33) (ibid.).

Indian Ocean: Red Sea ( Clark & Rowe 1971), South Africa ( Clark 1974), Madagascar ( Cherbonnier & Guille 1978).

Remarks: Amphiodia (A.) microplax and A. (A.) obtecta are difficult to distinguish and may have been confused ( Mortensen 1940; Stöhr et al. 2010). They differ in the ventral disc, which lacks scales in A. obtecta but is fully scaled in A. microplax . Both have spiny processes distal to the radial shields and marginal dorsal disc scales with spiny extensions ( Stöhr et al. 2010), which places them in the subgenus Amphispina Nielsen, 1932 as defined by A. M. Clark (1970).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Ophiuroidea

Order

Ophiurida

Family

Amphiuridae

Genus

Amphiodia

Loc

Amphiodia (Amphispina) microplax Burfield, 1924

Fatemi, Yaser & Stöhr, Sabine 2019
2019
Loc

Amphiodia (Amphispina) microplax —A. M. Clark 1970: 25

Clark, A. M. 1970: 25
1970
Loc

Amphiodia microplax

Burfield, S. T. 1924: 146
1924
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