CATALOG OF RECENT OPHIUROID TYPE SPECIMENS 89 



Ophiactis nomentis Farquhar 



Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, vol, 39, p. 125, 1907. 



Syntypes: 



MCZ 3697 (2 dry). Cape Maria van Diemen, New Zealand. 



Ophiactis notabilis H. L. Clark 



Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, vol. 86, no. 3054, p. 415, 

 pi. 52, figs. 1, 2, 1939. 



Holotype: 



USNM E5590 (dry), Sta. 19, off Puntilla Point, Puerto Rico, 3.5 fms., 

 Mar. 29, 1937, collected by W. L. Schmitt. 



Ophiactis plana Lyman 



Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, vol. 1, 

 p. 330, 1869. 



Holotype: 



MCZ 1184 (1 dry), off Carysfort Reef, Florida, 117 fms. 



Paratypes: 

 MCZ 1185 (1 dry). Key West, Florida, Pourtales, collector. 



MCZ 1242 (1 alcohol), off Tortugas. 



MCZ 4632 (1 dry), same as 1184. 



Ophiactis poa Lyman 



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

 p. 40, pi. 13, figs. 356-358, 1879. 

 = Ophiactis abyssicola (see H. L. Clark, 1918) 



Syntypes: 



MCZ 1188 (2 dry), off Tristan da Cunha, 500 fms.. Challenger collec- 

 tion. 



Ophiactis profundi Lutken and Mortensen 



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

 XXin, no. 2, p. 140, pi. 6, figs. 4-6, 1899. 

 = Ophiactis plana (see H. L. Clark, 1918) 



Syntypes: 



USNM 19516 (4 dry). Albatross Sta. 3380, southeast of Malpelo Id., 

 Baja California, 899 fms., 1891. 



USNM 19517 (1 alcohol). Albatross Sta. 3406, near Galapagos Ids., 

 551 fms., 1891. 



MCZ 1189 (2 dry), Albatross Sta. 3380, SE of Malpelo Id., 899 fms. 



