1. Ophiomyxa vivipara Studer 1876
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O'Hara, Timothy D. and Thuy, Ben
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Ophiomyxa ,Animalia ,Biodiversity ,Ophiuroidea ,Ophiacanthida ,Ophiomyxidae ,Ophiomyxa vivipara ,Taxonomy ,Echinodermata - Abstract
Ophiomyxa vivipara Studer, 1876 Fig. 13A–B Ophiomyxa vivipara Studer, 1876: 462.— Mortensen 1933a: 301–304, fig. 27–29. Ophiomyxa vivipara var capensis Mortensen 1936: 242. Ophiomyxa vivipara capensis.— Olbers et al. 2019: 155–156, fig. 146–147. Material examined. MD 50 CP7, MNHN IE.2009.1605 (6). MD 50 DC108, MNHN IE.2009.1606 (24). MD 50 CP145, MNHN IE.2009.1607 (3). Distribution. S America (6–507 m), W Atlantic (94–156 m), S Africa (80–755 m), W Indian (373–1179 m), E Indo-W Pacific (385–888 m), S Australia (522–2170 m), New Zealand (150–1408 m). SPA (460–1680 m). Remarks. The numerous MD 50 specimens (Fig. 13A–B) measure up to 11.8 mm dd and have the thin ovalto-trapezoid perforated unfragmented DAPs that cover the vertebrae that are diagnostic for the O. vivipara - O. serpentaria Lyman, 1883 complex of species (see Mortensen 1933c, fig. 1–2). Analysis of COI sequences (O’Hara et al. 2014), showed that O. serpentaria specimens from the North Atlantic form a distinct clade to O. vivipara, as do populations from subtropical SW Australia and NE New Zealand, but O. vivipara sequences from the Falkland Islands, Tristan da Cunha, South Africa, Coral Seamount on the SW Indian Ridge, SE Australia, New Zealand and the Macquarie Ridge were not distinguishable. However, there are inter-population differences in life history. Specimens from off South America brood juveniles in their bursal sacs but specimens in other regions do not (Mortensen 1933c, 1936; O’Hara et al. 2013). Mortensen (1936) suggested that the number of segments at the base of the arm that only have one arm spine was a way of distinguishing South American (one segment) from South African specimens (5–6 segments). However, in our experience this result is not consistent across all specimens from these regions. The current specimens have one arm spine only for the first segment, however, despite having mature gonads they show no sign of bursal viviparity., Published as part of O'Hara, Timothy D. & Thuy, Ben, 2022, Biogeography and taxonomy of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from the Îles Saint- Paul and Amsterdam in the southern Indian Ocean, pp. 1-49 in Zootaxa 5124 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5124.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6404674, {"references":["Studer, T. (1876) Uber Echinodermen aus dem antarktischen Meere und zwei neue Seeigel von den Papua-Inseln, gesammelt auf der Reise S. M. S. Gazelle um die Erde. Monatsbericht der koniglich preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1876, 452 - 465.","Mortensen, T. (1933 a) Echinoderms of South Africa (Asteroidea: Ophiuroidea). Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, 93, 215 - 400, pls. 8 - 19.","Mortensen, T. (1936) Echinoidea and Ophiuroidea. Discovery Reports, 12, 199 - 348, 9 pls. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 8051","Olbers, J. M., Griffiths, C. L., O'Hara, T. D. & Samyn, Y. (2019) Field guide to the brittle and basket stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) of South Africa. Brussels: Royal Belgium Institute of Natural Sciences.","Lyman, T. (1883) Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Caribbean Sea in 1878 - 79, and among the Atlantic coast of the United States during the summer of 1880, by the U. S. Coast Survey steamer Blake, Commander J. R. Bartlett, U. S. N., commanding. XX. Report on the Ophiuroidea. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 10, 227 - 287 pls. 1 - 8.","Mortensen, T. (1933 c) Ophiuroidea. The Danish Ingolf Expedition, 4, 1 - 120, 3 pls.","O'Hara, T. D., England, P. R., Gunasekera, R. & Naughton, K. M. (2014) Limited phylogeographic structure for five bathyal ophiuroids at continental scales. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 84, 18 - 28. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. dsr. 2013.09.009","O'Hara, T. D., Smith, P. J., Mills, V. S., Smirnov, A. V. & Steinke, D. (2013) Biogeographical and phylogeographical relationships of the bathyal ophiuroid fauna of the Macquarie Ridge, Southern Ocean. Polar Biology, 36, 321 - 333. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00300 - 012 - 1261 - 9"]}
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