CATALOG OF RECENT OPHIUROID TYPE SPECIMENS 75 



Opiacantlia nerthepsila H, L. Clark 



Annals of the South African Museum, vol. XIII, pt. VII, no. 12, p. 319, 

 pi. 19, figs. 3, 4, 1923. 



Paratypes: 



MCZ 4316 (4 dry), Pieter Faure 13240, Cove Rock, East London, Cape 

 Colony, 43 fms. 



MCZ 4317 (1 dry), Pieter Fauve 13619, Great Fish Pt., Cape Colony, 

 22 fms. 



MCZ 4401 (2 alcohol), Pieter Faure 13801, Riet Point, Cape Colony, 

 22 fms. 



Ophiacantha normani Lyman 



Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, vol. 6, 

 p. 58, pi. 15, figs. 414-416, 1879. 



Syntypes: 



MCZ 1971 (4 dry), Cliallenger Sta. 232, Sagami Bay, Japan, 345 fms. 



Ophiacantfia nudextrema H. L. Clark 



John Murray Expedition 1933-34. Scientific Reports, vol. VI, no. 2, 

 p. 44, fig. 6, 1939. 



Paratypes: 



MCZ 6007 (2 dry), Murray Exped. Sta. 157, Maldive area, 125 fms. 



Ophiacantfia oedidisca H. L. Clark 



U.S. National Museum Bulletin 75, p. 219, fig. 101, 1911. 



Holotype: 



USNM 25731 (dry). Albatross Sta. 4959, off MizimokoShima Lt., Japan, 

 405-578 fms., 1906. 



Paratypes: 



USNM 26621 (1 alcohol). Albatross Sta. 4959, see above. 



USNM 26697 (1 dry), Albatross Sta. 4957, off Mizimoko Shima Lt., 

 Japan, 437 fms., 1906. 



USNM 26713 (1 dry), Albatross Sta. 4960, off Mizimoko Shima Lt., 

 Japan, 578 fms., 1906. 



USNM 26813 (1 dry). Albatross Sta. 5080, off Omai Saki Lt., Japan, 

 505 fms., 1906. 



MCZ 320 (1 dry). Albatross Sta. 4976, off SE Japan, 544-545 fms. 



Ophiacanllia oligacantlm H. L. Clark 



Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, vol. 62, 

 p. 265, pi. 7, fig. 5, 1918. 

 = Ophiocomella ophiactoides (see Parslow and Clark, 1963) 



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