. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. KOKTH PACIFIC OPHIUEANS IN NATIONAL MUSEUM^—CLARK, 87 irregular arrangement of the disk scales may not be a species character for such a condition is occasionally found as an individual variation in species which normally have the disk scales very regularly disposed. OPHIURA BRACHYACTIS, new species, a Disk 17 mm. in diameter; arms about 35 mm. long. Disk high, 6 mm. thick, covered by a smooth, firm coat of some seventy-five scales; central primary plate very small (peculiarly elongated in the type, but pentagonal in the other specimen), sur
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. KOKTH PACIFIC OPHIUEANS IN NATIONAL MUSEUM^—CLARK, 87 irregular arrangement of the disk scales may not be a species character for such a condition is occasionally found as an individual variation in species which normally have the disk scales very regularly disposed. OPHIURA BRACHYACTIS, new species, a Disk 17 mm. in diameter; arms about 35 mm. long. Disk high, 6 mm. thick, covered by a smooth, firm coat of some seventy-five scales; central primary plate very small (peculiarly elongated in the type, but pentagonal in the other specimen), surrounded by the five very large radials, which look as though they overlapped each other clockwise (probably they do not really overlap at alD. Radial shields. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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