Ophiocoma (Breviturma), Stöhr & Boissin & Hoareau & Ecomar & Usr, 2013

Stöhr, Sabine, Boissin, Emilie & Hoareau, Thierry B., 2013, Taxonomic revision and phylogeny of the Ophiocoma brevipes group (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea), with description of a new subgenus (Breviturma) and a new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 68, pp. 1-26 : 7

Subgenus Breviturma subgen. nov.

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Diagnosis

Subgenus of Ophiocoma , previously known as brevipes group. Characterized by equal (non-alternating) numbers of arm spines; disc granules uniform in size, low and blunt; dorsal arm plates rounded, almost oval (in adult specimens, more rounded triangular in younger individuals); dental plate about twice as long as wide and thus the shortest in the genus, with tooth papillae region occupying 25 % of the dental plate length.

Etymology

The name Breviturma refers to the original name brevipes group, combined with turma = troop, here meaning group.

Type species

Ophiocoma brevipes Peters, 1851 .

Included species

Ophiocoma doederleini , O. brevipes , O. dentata and O. krohi sp. nov.