CATALOG OF RECENT OPHIUROID TYPE SPECIMENS 185 



MCZ 2246 (6 alcohol). SW of Sand Key, Fla., 125 fms., Pourtales, 

 collector. 



MCZ 2248 (8 alcohol), off Carysfort Reef, Fla., 117 fms., Pourtales, 

 collector. 



Ophiothauma hepactis H. L. Clark 



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

 p. 211, 1938. 



Holotype: 



MCZ 4917 (1 dry). Port Essington, Coburg Peninsula, N.T., Australia, 

 May 1932. 



Ophiothela caerulea H. L. Clark 



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

 no. 4, p. 283, pi. 14, fig. 1, 1915. 



Holotype: 



MCZ 2497 (1 dry), Arabian Gulf, C. Mullet, collector. 



Ophiothela danae Verrill 



Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. 12, p. 391, 

 1869. 



Syntypes: 



*YPM 395 (2 alcohol), Feegee Islands, U.S. Exploring Expedition. 



MCZ 2492 (9 dry), Fiji Islands. 



MCZ 2631 (1 alcohol), same as 2492. 



♦This is cataloged under YPM 902, but is almost undoubtedly YPM 395. 



Ophiothela dividua von Martens 



Sitzungsberichte der GesellschaftNaturforschenderFreundezu Berlin, 

 p. 127, 1879. 



Syntypes: 



MCZ 2493 (2 dry), Algoa Bay, South Africa. 



MCZ 2632 (1 alcohol), same as above. 



Ophiothela fiadra H. L. Clark 



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

 no. 4, p. 284, pi. 14, fig. 2, 1915. 



Holotype: 



MCZ 3831 (1 dry), Murray Ids., Torres Straits, 18 fms., Oct. 13, 1913, 

 Carnegie Expedition. 



