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TABLE 2 

 Comments on Color, Disc and Arm Length, Size, and Repository 



Neoplax crassipes, color deep brown with white markings, one specimen dry with disc diameter (d.d) 13 mm, AHF. 



Ophiomiixa australis, color in ale. dull straw, arm spines tipped with red-brown, disc and mouth light gray, 1 ale. MPRL. 



Astroboa nuda, color above disc purplish black also main arm axes except lighter belts of booklets, a darker band between each 

 row, broader above and narrowly curved distally around sides of arms; narrow depressed longitudinal dark line down center 

 of arms, more distal arm branches quite light in color; lower surface of arms lighter than above without dark bands or 

 longitudinal line, a few distal branches with some dark color not uniform, 1 dry, d.d. 85 mm, MPRL. 



Amphiura luetkeni, red and white disc with reddish arms. 



Amphiodia sp., white disc, white arms, 1 dry, disc 2.5 to 3 mm, arm 60 mm, BPBM. 



Macrophiothrix hngipeda, from Araanbiru, 1 ale. d.d. 23.5 mm, arm 300 mm, MPRL; from Engebi, 1 ale, d.d. 5.5 mm, 

 arm 132 mm, MPRL; from Engebi, 1 spec., disc 13 mm, arm 155 mm, MPRL. 



Macrophiothrix rhabdota, 1 dry, d.d. 8 mm, arms broken, MPRL; 1 ale. d.d. 8 mm, arms broken, AHF. 



Ophiotheh danae, disc blue or green, arms annulated with narrow band of light or dark across, 10+ dry, disc 0.7 to 4 mm usually 

 with six arms or in fissiparous stage with only three arms, BPBM. 



Ophiothrix (Acanthophiothrix) proteus, 1 dry, d.d. 9 mm, arms 100 to 110 mm, BPBM. 



Ophiothrix fAcanthophiofhrixj purpurea, color of wide, dark stripe or along middle or narrow dark stripe bordered by light lines on 

 dorsal side of arms; arm spines banded dark and light; radial shields bare, but between, radially and interradially, 

 either granular stumps or stumps and a few long spines, marginally and on ventral side, disc with stumps and spines widely spaced, 

 1 ale, d.d. 7 mm, BPBM. 



Ophiothrix (Ophiothrix) tri/ineata, from Enewetak Islet, 1 spec, gonads ripe; from Japtan Islet, 1 spec, gonads ripe; from 

 Medren, 2 spec, gonads ripe. 



Ophiar^thrum elegans, living color dark black, arms red and whitish band with some small dark speckling between arm spines with 

 irregular dark and light marks, from Enewetak, 1 ale, d.d. 12 mm, BPBM; Sand Islet, 2 ale, d.d. 10, d.d. 13 mm, 

 BPBM; Lagoon, color dark black with red arms, 1 dry, BPBM. 



Ophionereis sp., from Enewetak Islet, 2 dry, d.d. 5, d.d. 6, BPBM. 



Ophiarachna affinis, 1 ale. d.d. 12 mm, MPRL. 



Ophiarachnella gorgonia, from Enewetak Islet, 1 dry, d.d. 12 mm, BPBM; from Rabaion Islet, 3 dry, d.d. 14 to 16 mm, AHF. 



Ophioconis permixla, 1 ale, d.d. 2 mm, BPBM. 



Ophiolepis superba, from Enewetak Islet, 1 ale, d.d. 24 mm, AHF. 



Ophiolepis sp. after O. cinta, from Enewetak Islet, 1 dry d.d. 13 mm, 1 dry, d.d. 11.5 mm, BPBM; from Lagoon, 1 spec. d.d. 7 

 mm, AHF. 



Ophiura kinbergi, from Engebi Islet, 1 juv., ale, d.d. 3 mm, MPRL. 



Undersea Research Laboratory dives in 1981 at a depth of 

 122 to 130 m. 



Ophidiasteridae 



This family has the largest number of species 

 represented at Enewetak, with at least 10 now recorded. 

 Four have bean reported previously from the Marshall 

 Islands; all are widespread Indo-West Pacific species. 



Asteropseidae 



The Asteropseidae is recorded for the first time in the 

 Marshall Islands in the form of Asteropsis carinifera, a 



species which ranges in the Indo-West Pacific from Hawaii 

 through Oceania and into the Indian Ocean. 



Asterinidae 



The Asterinidae at Enewetak are represented by two 

 species and possibly a third (Asferina coronata) determined 

 by P. C. Ziesenhenne. All three have been previously 

 recorded from the Marshall Islands {A. H. Clark, 1952). 



Acanthasteridae 



Acarithaster planci, the crown-of-thorns sea star, is 

 known at Enewetak from studies of its predatory activity 

 on scleractinian corals (Highsmith, 1980, 1982) and a fish 

 symbiont (Allan, 1972). 



