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Ho lo type: 



MCZ 4961 (1 dry), Broome, Western Australia, 5-8 fms., June 1932. 



Para type: 



MCZ 4962 (1 dry), Broome, Western Australia, flat, September 1929, 

 C-A-H Expedition. 



Ophionephthys limicola Lutken 



Additamenta ad historiam Ophiuridarum, pt. 3, p. 24, fig., 1869. 



Syntypes: 



MCZ 1571 (3 dry), St. Thomas, D.W.L 



Ophionephthys octacantha H. L. Clark 



Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, 

 vol. XXV, no. 4, p. 239, pi. 9, figs. 9, 10, 1915. 



Ho lo type: 



MCZ 3744 (1 dry), Friday Ids., Torres Strait, Sept. 13. 1913, Carnegie 

 Expedition. 



Ophionephthys phalerata Lyman 



Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, vol. 3, 

 p. 229, pL 6, figs. 7-9, 1874. 



Holotype: 



MCZ 1130 (1 dry), Philippines, Semper, collector. 



Ophionephthys tenuis H. L. Clark 



Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, 

 VOL LV, p. 241, 1938. 



Holotype: 



MCZ 4963 (1 dry), Broome, Western Australia, September 1929, 

 C-A-H Expedition. 



Paratypes: 



MCZ 4964 (12 dry), same as 4963. 



MCZ 4965 (26 alcohol), same as 4963. 



Ophionereis dictyota Ziesenhenne 



Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, voL 8, no. 2, p. 29, pi. 6, figs. 1-5, 

 1940. 



Holotype: 



AHF 7 (dry), Velero Sta. 778-38, Chatham Bay, Cocos Id., Costa 

 Rica, tidepool, Jan. 14, 1938. 



Paratypes: 



AHF 503.2 (1), Velero Sta. 512-36. Ballena Bay, Espiritu Santo Id., 

 Gulf of California, shore, Feb. 23, 1936. 



