Ophiuroidea name details
original description
Balinsky, J.B. (1957). The Ophiuroidea of Inhaca Island. Ann. Natal Mus. 14: 1-33. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record
Price, A.R.G. & Rowe, F.W.E. (1996). Indian Ocean echinoderms collected during the Sindbad Voyage (1980-81): 3. Ophiuroidea and Echinoidea. <em>Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Lond. (Zool.).</em> 62(2): 71.82., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/78479#/summary [details]
From other sources
Description Disc covered by very fine scales. Radial shields three times as long as broad, distally contiguous. Oral shields slightly broader than long, rounded-rhomboidal. Adoral plates don't meet in anyway. Aboral arm plates broader than long, oval to fan-shaped, distal side convex and in contact with the next plate. Oral arm plates about as broad as long, rounded-pentagonal, distal side concave. One tentacle scale. Five (sometimes six on the proximal segments) pointed arm spines, the lowest one slightly the longest, length more than an arm segment. Habitat: coral reef (Balinsky, 1957). [details]
Type locality Inhaca I, Delagoa Bay. Holotype in South African Museum, Cape Town. [details]
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