Archive image from page 260 of Discovery reports (1936) Discovery reports discoveryreports12inst Year: 1936 OPHIOMYXIDAE 245 angular, adoral shields rather broad, not joining within; they separate broadly the buccal shield from the first lateral plate. Mouth papillae small, feebly developed. Ventral arm plates distinctly longer than broad, with convex distal edge, joining broadly at least as far out on the arms as they are preserved. Dorsal arm plates very feebly developed, as usual, but covering the whole broad dorsal side between the small lateral plates; they are not divided in two by a t
Archive image from page 260 of Discovery reports (1936) Discovery reports discoveryreports12inst Year: 1936 OPHIOMYXIDAE 245 angular, adoral shields rather broad, not joining within; they separate broadly the buccal shield from the first lateral plate. Mouth papillae small, feebly developed. Ventral arm plates distinctly longer than broad, with convex distal edge, joining broadly at least as far out on the arms as they are preserved. Dorsal arm plates very feebly developed, as usual, but covering the whole broad dorsal side between the small lateral plates; they are not divided in two by a transverse line. Arm spines four, short, robust, the lower- most and uppermost ones slightly longer than the two middle ones. One tentacle scale. Colour in alcohol brownish. The species is clearly viviparous; not that I have actually found embryos within it, but the eggs are large, ca. o-z-o-t, mm. and yolky, seven to ten eggs in each gonad; and then it is hermaphrodite, there being one male gonad at the adradial side and one or two female gonads at the interradial side of the bursa. As not a single case is known
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