CATALOG OF RECENT OPHIUROID TYPE SPECIMENS 81 



Holotype: 



MCZ 1988 (1 dry), Blake Sta. 16, near Mooro Lt., Havana, Cuba. 



Paratype: 



MCZ 1989 (1 dry), Blake Sta. 21, west of Havana, Cuba, 287 fms. 



Ophiacantha scutigera Mortensen 



Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, bd. 93, 

 no. LXV, p. 317, figs. 38, 39; pi. 29, figs. 6, 7, 1933. 



Paratype: 



MCZ 5874 (1 dry), off Durban, 120 fms., August 1929, Dr. Mortensen. 



Ophiacantlia sentosa Lyman 



Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, vol. 5, 

 p. 140, pi. 9, figs. 229-232, 1878. 



Syntype: 



MCZ 1998 (1 dry). Challenger sta. 298, off Valparaiso, Chile, 2225 

 fms. 



Ophiacantlia severa Koehler 



U.S. National Museum Bulletin 100, vol. 5, p. 61, pi. 17, figs. 1-3, 

 1922. 



Holotype: 



USNM 41238 (dry), Albatross sta. 5629, Patiente Strait, Philippines, 



205 fms., Dec. 2, 1909. 



Paratypes: 



USNM 41237 (2 dry), Albatross Sta. 5645, Buton Strait, Philippines, 



206 fms., Dec. 16, 1909. 



Ophiacantlia similis A. H. Clark 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, vol. xviii, p. 117, 

 1916. 



Holotype: 



USNM 38583 (alcohol). Albatross Sta. 2818, Galapagos, 392 fms., 

 Apr. 15, 1888. 



Ophiacantlia sociabilis Koehler 



Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, ser. 8, vol. 4, p. 348, 

 pi. 8, figs. 62, 63, 1897. 



Syntype: 



MCZ 3542 (1 dry), 12O20'N, 8508'E, Bay of Bengal, 1803 fms.. Investi- 

 gator collection. 



Ophiacantha spectabilis Sa.rs 



Forhandlinger: Videnskabs-Selskabet: Christiania, p. 10, 1871. 



Syntype: 



MCZ 2009 (1 dry), Norway. 



