Amphipholis squamata (Mills, V. Sadie & O'Hara, Timothy D. 2013)
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Ordo: Ophiurida
Familia: Amphiuridae
Genus: Amphipholis
Name
Amphipholis squamata Delle Chiaje, 1828 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Amphipholis squamata Mills, V. Sadie, 2013, Zootaxa 3613: 410-411.
Description
Amphiura parva Hutton, 1878: 305 [synonymised by Benham, 1909]. Amphiura squamata.—Lyman, 1879: 32.—Lyman, 1882: 136. Amphiura elegans.—Farquhar, 1898: 191–192.—Farquhar, 1907: 125. Amphipholis australiana Clark, H.L., 1909 a: 540 –541, pl. 52 (1–3) [synonymised by Clark, H.L., 1938]. Amphipholis squamata.—Benham, 1911: 152–153.—Clark, H.L., 1921: 106–107.—Mortensen, 1924: 161–162.—Koehler, 1930: 102–103.—Mortensen, 1936: 292–293.—Clark, H.L., 1938: 243–244.—Clark, H.L., 1946: 202.—Fell, 1952: 20.—Fell, 1953: 102.—Fell, 1958: 28.—Clark, A.M., 1970: fig. 1g.—Clark, A.M. & Rowe, 1971: 80 –81, 99, fig. 27 b, pl. 13 (5).—Clark, A.M. & Courtman-Stock, 1976: 151–152, fig. 138.—Fenwick & Horning, 1980: 439.—Paterson, 1985: 91, fig. 36. Axiognathus squamata.—McKnight, 1967 a: 311–312.—McKnight, 1967 b: 325.
Materials Examined
Material Examined. Bay of Islands. TAN0906/ 33, NIWA 54873 (2). TAN0906/ 87, NIWA 55547 (1). Marlborough Sounds. TAN 1105 / 156, NIWA 77843 (1). West Coast North Island. TAN 1105 / 88, NIWA 77842 (1).
Diagnosis
Diagnosis. Disc scaled dorsally and ventrally, radial shields contiguous. Primary plates not obvious in adult animals. Two distal oral papillae: square proximal papilla, low and wide oblong distal oral papilla. Three arm spines, 2 tentacle scales. Viviparous, bioluminescent.
Description
Description. See Mortensen (1924).
Distribution
Distribution. New Zealand, Australia, circumglobal in temperate and tropical waters (0–1000 m).
Taxon Treatment
- Mills, V. Sadie; O'Hara, Timothy D.; 2013: Ophiuroids (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) of biogenic habitats on the continental shelf of New Zealand, Zootaxa 3613: 410-411. doi
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