Description
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Description: disc scales with scattered pointed spinelets; single thick oral papilla, no infradental papilla; variation in the structure of the adoral shields; dorsal arm plates broader than long, distal edge concave; five pointed arm spines (some variation in the number of arm spines), uppermost or the next the longest (Sastry, 1995). Colour: O. modesta is easily mistaken in the field for O. savignyi, but its green is more bluish than that of the latter species. A pair of white spots near the distal margin of each dorsal arm plate (Balinsky, 1957). Also distributed in W India, Pakistan, East Indies, north Australia, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia in Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995); India (West Bengal), Andamans and Tamil Nadu (Sastry, 1995). General distribution: tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958); tropical, west Pacific Ocean (also West India adn Pakistan); Arabian Sea to Hawaiian Is. (Sastry, 1995); tropical, west Pacific Ocean (also West India and Pakistan) (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
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- bibliographic citation
- Clark, A.M. & Courtman-Stock, J. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. Clark, A.M. & Courtman-Stock, J. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. Cherbonnier, G.; Guille, A. (1978). Echinodermes: Ophiurides. <em>Faune de Madagascar, 48.</em> Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS): Paris. ISBN 2-222-02341-6. 272 pp.
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- Edward Vanden Berghe [email]
