Ophioderma appressum (Say 1825)

In Panama this species has been collected in the Caribbean from:

-Galeta Island, near Colon (USNM E 26426, USNM E 26422)

-La Doncella Del Padre Island, Colon (USNM E 52963; Centroid Latitude: 9.5800, Centroid Longitude: -79.6700)

-Margarita Island, Fort Randolph (USNM E 26429, USNM E 28381)

-Sail Rock, Canal Zone (USNM E 26427)

-Shimmey Beach, Fort Sherman,(USNM E 25544)

-Toro Point, Limon Bay (USNM E 26884)

-Buenaventura Bay, Mangote Island (USNM 1117655)

-Miria Island, San Blas (USNM E 52963, USNM E 26430)

Say, T. (1825). On the species of the Linnaean genus Asterias inhabiting the coast of the U.S. Journal of the Academy of natural sciences of Philadelphia, 5, 141-154.

Lütken, C.F. (1859). Additamenta ad historiam Ophiuridarum. Anden Afdelning. Det kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskaps Skrifter. 5 Raekke, Naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk Afdelning, 5, 177-271, 5 pl.

Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance, C. G. Messing, F. A. Solis-Marin, and C. L. Mah. 2009. Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1177–1204 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College S.

World Ophiuroidea Database

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Ophioderma appressum (Say, 1825)
Ophioderma virescens Lütken, 1859
Ophiura appressa Say, 1825

Disk circular to pentagonal (dd = 4.18 to 7.89 mm), covered by small granules (Fig. 13a). Radial shields oval and covered with granules (Fig. 13a). Ventral interradius covered by similar granules. Four short bursal slits (Fig. 13b). Oral shields oval (Fig. 13c). Adoral shields broadened laterally, not covered by granules (Fig. 13c). Seven or eight oral papillae on each side of jaw angle (Fig. 13c), the three proximal ones small and elongated the last one narrow and partially covered by the previous papilla. Single apical papillae. Dorsal arm plate longer than wide, with distal margin rounded (Fig. 13e). Seven small, compressed, arm spines, the ventralmost one partially covered by outer tentacle scale. Two tentacle scales, the inner one longest (Fig. 13d).

Western Atlantic from Bermuda, South Carolina, the islands off southern Florida, Texas offshore reefs, the Bahamas, the Antilles, Mexican Caribbean, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, islands off Caribbean Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil (Tommasi 1970, Hendler et al. 1995, Chavarro et al. 2004, Durán-Gonzáles et al. 2005, Alvarado et al. 2008). In Brazil from Paraíba, Pernambuco (Rathbun 1879), Alagoas (Miranda et al. 2012), Bahia (Rathbun 1879), Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo (Tommasi 1970). Intertidal to 364 m deep. Recorded from 10 to 35 m in the present account.