. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. OPHIOLEPIDAE 331 St. WS 33. 26. 54" 59'S, 35° 24'W, South Georgia, 130 m. i specimen. St. WS 212. 30. V. 28. 49° 22' S, 60° 10' W, N of Falkland Islands, 242-249 m. i specimen. St. MS 71. 9. iii. 26. East Cumberland Bay, South Georgia, 110-60 m. 7 specimens, and a number of very young specimens, the identification of which is uncertain. There can be no doubt that these specimens are identical with the Ophiomastiis rottmdus of G. A. Smith, likewise from South Georgia, though differin
. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. OPHIOLEPIDAE 331 St. WS 33. 26. 54" 59'S, 35° 24'W, South Georgia, 130 m. i specimen. St. WS 212. 30. V. 28. 49° 22' S, 60° 10' W, N of Falkland Islands, 242-249 m. i specimen. St. MS 71. 9. iii. 26. East Cumberland Bay, South Georgia, 110-60 m. 7 specimens, and a number of very young specimens, the identification of which is uncertain. There can be no doubt that these specimens are identical with the Ophiomastiis rottmdus of G. A. Smith, likewise from South Georgia, though differing in some minor points from Smith's description. This identity was fully confirmed by the examination of one of Smith's original specimens, sent me for examination from the British Museum. Smith's statement that there are three arm spines up to the seventh joint, then four, must be due to some mis-. Fig. 44. Ophiura meridionalis (Lyman). Part of oral side (a), xi8; dorsal side (b), < 10. Proximal part of arm, side view (c). x 18. take. My specimens, as well as the co-type sent me, have only three spines throughout; only quite exceptionally have I occasionally found four spines on a joint. It may be remarked that the upper spine is generally slightly the largest. Not being able to see from extant descriptions and figures how this Ophiomastiis rotundus could be distinguished from Lyman's Ophioglypha meridionalis from off La Plata, I applied to the British Museum for the loan of one of the original specimens of O. meridionalis, which was very kindly granted me. The result of the comparison of the two species is that there can be no doubt of their identity. As seen from Figs. 44, 45 there is some slight difference in the arrangement of the scales of the disk, the five primary radial plates being replaced by an irregular circle of eight plates in the type of meridionalis; this is, however, quite evidently an anomaly, and an exactly similar arrangement may be found in some of t
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