Amphiura (Amphiura) pusilla Farquhar, 1897

Mills, V. Sadie & O'Hara, Timothy D., 2013, Ophiuroids (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) of biogenic habitats on the continental shelf of New Zealand, Zootaxa 3613 (5), pp. 401-444 : 415-416

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scientific name	Amphiura (Amphiura) pusilla Farquhar, 1897
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Amphiura pusilla Farquhar, 1898: 191 , pl. 14(1–3).—Clark, H.L., 1915a: 235.—Mortensen, 1924: 152–153, fig. 26(1–2).—Fell, 1958: 27.—McKnight, 1993b: 194, 199.

Monamphiura pusilla .—McKnight, 1967a: 311.

Material Examined. Bay of Islands. KAH0907/195, NIWA 77877 (1).

Diagnosis. Scaled dorsally and ventrally. Oral shield with rounded margins. 5–6 bluntly pointed arm spines, reducing to 4 then 3 distally, as long as an arm segment, except for dorsal-most spine, which is shorter. Single large leaf-like tentacle scale.

Description. See Mortensen (1924).

Distribution. New Zealand (9–140 m).