CATALOG OF RECENT OPHIUROID TYPE SPECIMENS 83 



Syntype : 



MCZ 2018 (1 dry), Cliallenger Sta. 210, Philippines, 375 fms. 



Ophiacantfia varispina Verrill 



Reports of the U.S. Fish Commission for 1883, p. 545, 1885. 



Type: 



YPM 7680 (1 alcohol), Albatross Sta. 2069, off Nova Scotia, 101 fms., 

 Sept. 1, 1883. 



Ophiacantha vepratica Lyman 



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

 p. 137, pi. 10, figs. 245-247, 1878. 



Syntype: 



MCZ 2019 (1 dry), Challenger Sta. 171, NE of Kermadec, 600 fms. 



Ophiacantlia vilis Mortensen 



Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra DanskNaturhistorisk Forening, bd. 77, 

 no. 91, p. 114, fig. 7, 1924. 



Paratype: 



MCZ 2600 (1 dry). Cook Strait, New Zealand, 200 fms. 



Ophiactis acosmeta H. L. Clark 



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

 p. 262, 1938. 



Holotype: 



MCZ 5045 (1 dry), Dongarra, Western Australia, E.W. Bennett. 



Paratypes: 



MCZ 5046 (8 dry), Broome, W.A., 1932, H. L. Clark. 



MCZ 5040 (3 dry), same as 5045. 



MCZ 5041 (2 dry). Port Curtis, Queensland. 



Ophiactis algicola H. L. Clark 



New York Academy of Science. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the 

 Virgin Islands, vol. XVI, pt. 1, p. 56, 1933. 



Holotype: 



MCZ 4798 (1 dry), Tortugas, Florida, Carnegie Expedition, June 1917. 



Paratypes: 



MCZ 3905 (1 dry), Fairyland Bay, Bermuda, W. J. Crozier, collector, 

 1914. 



MCZ 4148 (11 dry), Buccoo Bay, Tobago, Carnegie Expedition, April 

 1916. 



MCZ 4190 (21 alcohol), same as 4148. 



