Ophiopsammium semperi Lyman, 1874

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 : 92

Ophiopsammium semperi Lyman, 1874

Ophiopsammium semperi Lyman, 1874: 232 , pl. 4, figs 11–17.

Habitat: Coral reef, on a Gorgonian, soft clay with sand, hard clay, 15–51 m ( Mortensen 1940).

Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman: Bushehr (2), Qeshm Island (10), Khoor Mousa (30), Bandar-Imam (31) (ibid.).

Indian Ocean: Red Sea ( Clark & Rowe 1971).

Remarks: This species may have been misidentified by Mortensen (1940) and confused with Ophiothela venusta ( Peyghan et al. 2018) . It has not been found since Mortensen’s (1940) record and it is therefore unclear if the species occurs in the study area.