CATALOG OF RECENT OPHIUROID TYPE SPECIMENS 43 



Type: 



YPM 7689 (1 alcohol), off Havana, Cuba, 200 fms.. May 29, 1893. Iowa 

 State Univ. Bahamas Expedition Sta. 16. 



Note: H. L. Clark (1915) erroneously ascribed this species to Studer's 

 Ophiuropsis lymani; however, it is evident from Verrill's description 

 that he was either unaware of Studer's species or did not consider it to 

 be the same. 



Asteronyx plana Lutken and Mortensen 



Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, vol. 

 XXm, no. 2, p. 186, pi. XXI, figs. 3-4; pi. XXII, figs. 7-9, 1899. 

 = Astrodia plana (see Doderlein, 1927) 



Syntypes: 



USNM 19600 (2 alcohol). Albatross Sta. 3360, Gulf of Panama, 1672, 

 1891. 



USNM 19601 (1 dry). Albatross Sta. 3375, south of Malpelo Id., 

 Colombia, 1201 fms., 1891. 



MCZ 2824 (1 dry), Albatross Sta. 3376, SW of Malpelo Id., Gulf of 

 Panama, 1132 fms. 



Asteronyx tenuispina Verrill (see page 50) 



Asteropora hadracantha H. L. Clark 



U.S. National Museum Bulletin 75, p. 280, fig. 142, 1911. 



Holotype: 



USNM 25727 (dry), Albatross Sta. 3764, off Simo Saki, Japan, 44-50 

 fms., 1900. 



Paratypes: 



USNM 26218 (1 dry), Albatross Sta. 4936, off Sata Misaki Lt., Japan, 

 103 fms., 1906. 



USNM 27151 (1 alcohol). Albatross Sta. 3727, off Omai Zaki Lt., 

 Honshu Id., Japan, 34 fms., 1906. 



MCZ 3278 (1 dry). Albatross Sta. 3730, off Omai Zaki Lt., Japan, 

 34-37 fms. 



MCZ 3447 (1 alcohol). Albatross Sta. 3727, see above. 



Asteroporpa pulchra H. L. Clark 



Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, vol. 

 XXV, no. 4, p. 182, pi. 2, fig. 7, 1915. 



Holotype: 



MCZ 2808 (1 dry), Blake Sta. 292, off Barbados, 56 fms. 



Paratjrpe: 

 MCZ 2809 (1 dry), same as 2808. 



347-689 O - 69 - 4 



