. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. NORTH PACIFIC OPHItJRANS IN NATIONAL MUSEUM—CLAKK. 249 OPHIOPHRURA, new genus.'^ Disk covered with a smooth coat of fine scales, entirely concealing the radial shields; oral tentacle scales very long and conspicuous; tentacle scales of arm numerous, three or four guarding each pore; otherwise as in Ophiacantha. Type-species.—OpJiiopTirura liodisca. Although obviously related to OphiacanfJia, the following species is so well characterized it seems to me best to make it the type of a new genus. The smooth, finely scaled disk, without an extern
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. NORTH PACIFIC OPHItJRANS IN NATIONAL MUSEUM—CLAKK. 249 OPHIOPHRURA, new genus.'^ Disk covered with a smooth coat of fine scales, entirely concealing the radial shields; oral tentacle scales very long and conspicuous; tentacle scales of arm numerous, three or four guarding each pore; otherwise as in Ophiacantha. Type-species.—OpJiiopTirura liodisca. Although obviously related to OphiacanfJia, the following species is so well characterized it seems to me best to make it the type of a new genus. The smooth, finely scaled disk, without an external hint of radial shields, looks ver}?" different from any OpJiiacantJia I have seen, while the very long spine-like scales at the distal ends of the mouth slits and the numerous tentacle scales give the oral surface an equally characteristic Fig. 121.—Ophiophrura liodisca. X • a, from above; b, from below; c, pide view of three arm JOINTS near disk. OPHIOPHRURA LIODISCA, new species.^ Disk 8 mm. in diameter; arms about 20 to 25 mm. long, probably. Disk covered with a smooth coat of very fine scales wliich entirely conceal the radial sliields. Upper arm plates rhomboidal Anth distal angle rounded, about as long as wide; basal ones nearly or quite in contact, but middle and distal ones well separated. Interbrachial spaces below covered like disk by fine scales. Genital slits large. Oral sliields pentagonal, nearly as long as wide, disto-lateral sides concave. Adoral plates narrow and meeting within, broad without and separating oral shield from first side arm plate; oral plates long and narrow. Oral papillae numerous, nine or ten on a side, of which O'''0^co and (f)poupa, signifying a guard, in reference to the numerous tentacle scales. bAioc, signifying smooth, and ohKoc, signifying disk, in reference to the absence of all spines and granules from the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digital
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