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Echinoderms from Southern New Zealand
Family Ophiomyxidae — Ophiomyxa M. & T., 1842
Family Ophiomyxidae
Ophiomyxa M. & T., 1842
Ophiomyxa brevirima H. L. Clark. 1915
- Alert station 20, three specimens.
Disc dark purple-brown, arms banded with alternating 3 mm. bars of fawn and chocolate, light fawn below.
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Ophiomyxa duskiensis Fell, 1947
- Alert station 13, about twenty specimens; station 22, one specimen; station 23, four specimens.
- New Golden Hind stations: NGH 2, three specimens; NGH 25, two specimens; MGH 41a, three specimens; NGH 57a, two specimens (type locality).
The New Golden Hind material has already been described (Fell, 1947). The Alert material, like the former, is uniformly small. The colour in life can now be stated—disc dark purple-brown, dark brown bands on the arm, in two shades of brown, turning dark grey in spirit.