Comprehensive Description
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Ophiomusium ligatum Koehler
Ophiomusium ligatum Koehler, 1922:408.
Although Koehler did not designate a type in his description of Ophiomusium ligatum, he especially emphasized the specimen from station 5445 in comparing it with another known species of Ophiomusium. Clark selected this individual, USNM E80 from station 5445, which is the only photographed specimen for the species represented in figures 3–5 on plate 90 as the lectotype (p. 452). The two specimens from station 5650 (USNM E81) are paralectotypes.
- bibliographic citation
- Ahearn, C. G. 1992. "Philippine brittlestars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) described by R. Koehler (1922): A corrected and annotated list of type specimens." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.537
