Deep-Sea Echinoderms of New Zealand

Amphiodia Verrill, 1899

Amphiodia Verrill, 1899

This amphiurid genus has not hitherto been recorded from New Zealand, though a species is recorded from Torres Strait in Australian waters. The genus is characterized as follows:

Oral papillae three or four in number, subequal; radial shields divergent; disc covered by scales, without any specially distinguished marginal scales, and without disc-spines.

Amphipholis squamata (Delle Chiaje)
  • For synonymy see Mortensen, Th., 1924. Vid. Medd. dansk naturh. For., 77 p. 161–2.

Material Examined: Five deep-sea examples from three stations: 300 fathoms, Canyon A, ENE Otago Heads. 2 specimens; 200–300 fathoms, Cook Strait, VUZ Station 51, 2 specimens: 150 fathoms, Cook Strait, VUZ Station 98, 1 specimen.