Amphiophiura superba (Lütken & Mortensen, 1899 )

Granja-Fernández, Rebeca, Hendrickx, Michel E., Rangel-Solís, Pedro Diego & López-Pérez, Andrés, 2023, Deep-sea Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) collected during the TALUD cruises in western Mexico, Zootaxa 5259 (1), pp. 1-71 : 27

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5259.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7795091

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scientific name

Amphiophiura superba (Lütken & Mortensen, 1899 )
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Amphiophiura superba (Lütken & Mortensen, 1899) View in CoL View at ENA

Fig. 6A‒F View FIGURE 6

Ophioglypha superba Lütken & Mortensen, 1899: 116‒117 , pl. 1, figs. 4‒8, pl. 7, fig. 4.

Ophiura hadra H.L. Clark, 1911: 80‒82 , fig. 24.

Ophiura superba . H.L. Clark 1913: 208‒209.

Amphiophiura superba View in CoL . H.L. Clark 1915: 314.

Amphiophiura superba View in CoL . Kyte 1969a: 1730, 1738.— Lambert & Boutillier 2011: 46, fig. 32.

Material examined. Eight individuals at four stations. TALUD XII, Sta. 24, 2 ind. (ICML-EMU-11135-A); Sta. 27, 3 ind. (ICML-EMU-11134-B) and 1 ind. (ICML-EMU-11135-B). TALUD XV, Sta. 3, 1 ind. (ICML-EMU-11663- B); Sta. 9, 1 ind. (ICML-EMU-11663-A).

Comparative material. Ophioglypha superba Lu ̈tken & Mortensen, 1899, syntypes, 4 ind.: MCZ OPH 726, MNHN-IE-2013-10248, USNM 19442. Ophiura hadra H.L. Clark, 1911 , paratypes, 18 ind.: MCZ OPH- 3002, MCZ OPH- 3003, MCZ OPH- 3004, MCZ OPH- 3321, USNM 25542, USNM 25612, USNM 25751, USNM 26974, USNM 33366 (Supplementary file 2).

Description (ICML-EMU-11134-B). DD = 20 mm. Disc pentagonal, swollen. Dorsal disc covered by irregular, prominent, inflated right-angled plates. Primary plates not evident. RS longer than broad, triangular with rounded edges, a diamond-shaped plate inserted proximally. Ventral interradii covered by up to five large, rounded plates ( Fig. 6A View FIGURE 6 ). Genital slits very conspicuous, with small quadrangular genital papillae, projecting dorsally and forming well-developed arm combs with pointed papillae, secondary arm comb present ( Fig. 6B View FIGURE 6 ). OSh occupies 3/4 of the interradius, longer than broad, pentagonal proximally, rounded distally. Madreporite not evident. AdSh longer than broad, elongated, surrounding the oral shield, meeting in front of OSh. Jaws bearing 4‒5 papillae at each side; BSc rectangular, elongated; IPa rectangular, elongated; 2IPa quadrangular, slightly pointed; TPa 1‒2 pointed, the apicalmost the largest. vT pointed, larger than oral papillae. Preceding ossicles separated by a diastema; one AdShSp, three 2AdShSp, rectangular with rounded edges ( Fig. 6C View FIGURE 6 ). Arms gradually narrowing distally. First DAP covered by the arm comb; subsequent DAP slightly broader than long, trapezoidal, meeting ( Fig. 6D View FIGURE 6 ). VAP as broad as long, diamond-shaped, separating and decreasing in size distally. LAP with 3‒4 similar size ArSp, minute (approximately 1/6 LAP in length), blunt. First tentacle pore with 4‒5 rectangular with rounded edges TSc; subsequent tentacle pores decreasing the number of TSc until reaching one distally ( Fig. 6E View FIGURE 6 ). Color pattern beige-whitish (ethanol preservation) ( Fig. 6A‒F View FIGURE 6 ).

Habitat and distribution. British Columbia, Canada, California, USA, and Mexico; 51‒ 1,867 m depth, muddy and sandy bottoms (H.L. Clark 1913; Maluf 1988; Granja-Fernández et al. 2015). The material examined was collected off western Baja California Sur and off Colima; 1,040 ‒1,542 m depth.

Remarks. Amphiophiura superba presents two types of arm comb papillae: rounded-squared tips (Lütken & Mortensen 1899; H.L. Clark 1911; type material of Ophioglypha superba and Ophiura hadra ) or pointed tips ( Lambert & Boutillier 2011; type material of O. hadra ; material examined). Differences in the shape of the arm comb papillae could be attributed to population differences. Nevertheless, further morphometric and molecular analysis is needed to confirm this. Larger specimens (DD = 24 mm) of A. superba present up to 4‒5 2AdShSp, and smaller ones (DD = 6.8 mm) up to three. Oral shields in this species can vary in shape; they can be complete or partially divided or amorphous. The presence of A. superba off Colima represents a new distribution record for this area and fills the distribution gap of this species in western Mexico.

MCZ

Museum of Comparative Zoology

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Ophiuroidea

Order

Ophiurida

Family

Ophiopyrgidae

Genus

Amphiophiura

Loc

Amphiophiura superba (Lütken & Mortensen, 1899 )

Granja-Fernández, Rebeca, Hendrickx, Michel E., Rangel-Solís, Pedro Diego & López-Pérez, Andrés 2023
2023
Loc

Amphiophiura superba

Lambert, P. & Boutillier, J. 2011: 46
Kyte, M. A. 1969: 1730
1969
Loc

Amphiophiura superba

Clark, H. L. 1915: 314
1915
Loc

Ophiura superba

Clark, H. L. 1913: 208
1913
Loc

Ophiura hadra H.L. Clark, 1911: 80‒82

Clark, H. L. 1911: 82
1911
Loc

Ophioglypha superba Lütken & Mortensen, 1899: 116‒117

Mortensen, T. 1899: 117
1899
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