Description: characterised by the presence of exposed and enlarged scales interradially and flat ... [details]
Colour in life:aboral side of the disc and basal part of the arms uniform brown. Distal part of the arms lighter ... [details]
Holotype in U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., (USA). Type locality: Canton Is, Pacific Ocean (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Holotype whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: Hawaiian Ils. and Kiribati (as Sandwich Ils./Kingsmill Ils.) ... [details]
Species is very similar to O. scolopendrina, but occurs at much greater depth. [details]
Also recorded from 'Coin Peros' by Bell (1909) - locality can't be traced. Holotype whereabouts undetermined. Type ... [details]
[junior homonym of Ophiocoma alternans von Martens, 1870 = Ophiocoma scolopendrina Clark, 1921] (Rowe & Gates, ... [details]
Treated as a synonym of O. brevipes in Ludwig (1899). [details]
Ophiartrum pictum Müller and Troschel = Ophiocoma pica??(Lyman, 1874). [details]
Synonymy uncertain, possibly Ophiocoma dentata. [details]