Ophiomusium mutum ( Hertz) 1927

Baker, Alan N., 2016, An illustrated catalogue of type specimens of the bathyal brittlestar genera Ophiomusium Lyman and Ophiosphalma H. L. Clark (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea), Zootaxa 4097 (1), pp. 1-40 : 18

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6056470
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scientific name	Ophiomusium mutum ( Hertz) 1927
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Ophiomusium mutum ( Hertz) 1927 .

Figures 26 a, b

Ophiomusium facunda var muta Hertz 1927.

Ophiomusium facundum mutum Hertz, 1927 . Stöhr, 2015.

Syntypes (2) ZMUC, Valdivia View in CoL Station 254, off southern Somalia, 977m.

Main Features: The larger of the two type specimens of this species is 16 mm d.d. It has tiny arm spines, dominating lateral arm plates, and has narrower oral shields than O. facundum , and the ventral interradial plate is naked. These features separate it from that species.

The holotype of O. mutum is in the Berlin Museum. A recent enquiry to the ZMUC about the syntypes indicated that they cannot now be identified in the collection.