CATALOG OF RECENT OPHIUROID TYPE SPECIMENS 135 



Syntype: 



MCZ 1401 (1 dry), Panama. 



Ophiolepis gracillima Stimpson 



Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. 4, p. 224, 

 1852. 

 = Amphipholis gracillima (see Ljungman, 1867) 



Syntype: 



MCZ 1403 (1 dry), Fort Johnson, Charleston, S.C, Stimpson, col- 

 lector. 



Ophiolepis grisea H. L. Clark 



Zoologica, New York, vol. 25, p. 346, fig. 4, 1940. 



Holotype: 



MCZ 6050 (1 dry), Zaca Sta. 199D5, Manypenny Pt., Gulf of Fonseca, 

 Nicaragua, 7 fms., Dec. 24, 1937. 



Paratypes: 



MCZ 6177 (3 dry), same as above. 



MCZ 6178 (1 alcohol), Zaca 199D7, La Union, Gulf of Fonseca, Nica- 

 ragua, 6 fms., Dec. 27, 1937. 



Ophiolepis hispida LeConte 



Proceedings of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, vol. 5, p. 318, 

 1851. 

 = Ophiocnida hispida (see Lyman, 1865) 



Holotype (arm only): 



USNM 1197 (dry), Panama, collected by Dr. J. LeConte, 1849. 



Ophiolepis plateia Ziesenhenne 



Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 41, pi. 8, figs. 

 4-6, 1940. 



Holotype and paratypes: 



AHF 584.2 (dry, 21 dry), Velero Sta. 483-35, Tenacatita Bay, Mexico, 

 Feb. 15, 1935, 6 fms. 



Paratypes: 



AHF 584.1 (22 alcohol), Velero Sta. 116-33, Cocos Bay, Puerto Cule- 

 bra, Costa Rica, 2 fms.. Mar. 13, 1933. 



AHF 584.3 (1 dry), Velero Sta. 964-39, Tenacatita Bay, Mexico, 2-8 

 fms.. May 8, 1939. 



AHF 584.4 (6 dry), Velero Sta. 965-39, Tenacatita Bay, Mexico, 8-15 

 fms.. May 8, 1939. 



USNM E8008 (3 dry), Velero Sta. 483-35, see above. 



