Ophioteichus multispinum H.L. Clark, 1938

Pineda-Enriquez, Tania, Solis-Marin, Francisco A. & Laguarda-Figueras, Alfredo, 2014, Revision of the genus Ophioteichus H. L. Clark, 1938 (Ophiuroidea: Ophiolepididae), Zootaxa 3784 (3), pp. 241-250 : 242

Ophioteichus multispinum H.L. Clark, 1938

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Ophioteichus multispinum H.L. Clark, 1938: 360 –362, pl. 25, fig. 5; Clark and Rowe, 1971: 129. Non Ophioteichus multispinum Starmer, 2003: 557 (= Ophiomora elegans Koehler, 1907 ).

Type material. Holotype MCZ 5306, dry (15 mm disc diameter, 25 mm arm length), from Lindeman Island, Great Barrier Reef, near MacKay, Queensland, Australia, July, 1934, under dead coral.

Other material examined. One specimen, AMNH A6749 (American Museum of Natural History), Padada Beach, Gulf of Davao, Celebes Sea, Philipines, June–July, 1936.

Diagnosis. Disc nearly circular, higher than the arms, covered with a coat of numerous swollen, smooth plates; each plate is surrounded by a belt of smaller flat scales. Radial shields small, smooth and flat, each pair separated by two conspicuous tubercles. In each interradius the disc margin is encircled by three spherical tubercles. Accessory dorsal and ventral arms plates are fragmented; minute pores present on the lateral margins of the dorsal arm plates. Six oral papillae on each side. More than twelve short, delicate, crowded and serrated arm spines. With two or three tentacle scales that are flat and nearly equal.

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FIGURE 2. Ophioteichus multispinum H. L. Clark, 1938, holotype MCZ 5306; A, dorsal view; B, ventral view; C, disc scales; D, radial shields and knobs on the disc; E, jaw details; F, interradial portion of the ventral part of the disc; G, dorsal arm plates with fragmented accessory dorsal arm plates; H, ventral arm plates with accessory ventral arm plates.