Figure 5: SEM photographs of skeletons of <i>Ophioplinthaca grandisquama</i> n. sp. (Paratype: RSIO56014).
<dl><dd>(A) Disc spine. (B) Ventral arm plate from proximal segment, external view. (C) Dorsal arm plate from proximal segment, external view. (D) Ventral-most arm spine. (E) Dorsal-most arm spine. (F) Oral plate, abradial face. (G) Oral plate, adradial face, white arrows point to oral papillae sockets and pores. (H) Dental plate. (I) Adradial genital plate. (J) Abradial genital plate. (K) Adradial genital plate, distal end. (L) Radial shield, external aspect. (M) Radial shield, internal aspect. (N–R) Vertebrae from proximal portion of arm. (N) Distal view. (O) Proximal view. (P) Lateral view. (Q) Dorsal view. (R) Ventral view. (S) External view of LAP. (T) Internal view of LAP. Abbreviations: AG, aboral groove; DL, dorsal lobe; dors, dorsal; dist, distal; DW, presumable depression for water ring canal; FB, foot basin; GC, adradial genital plate condyle; k, knob; LAC, lateral ambulacral canal; LR, lateral ridge of the adradial genital plate, attachment area of the abradial genital plate; MO, muscle opening; NO, nerve opening; p, perforations; PD, podial basins; prox, proximal; r, ridge; RC, radial shield condyle; TN, tentacle notch; vent, ventral; VL, ventral lobe; WVC, water vascular canal; Z, zagapophyses. Scale bars: 200 µm.</dd></dl>
Chen W, Na J, Zhang D. 2021. Description of three species of ophioplinthacids, including a new species, from a deep seamount in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. <i>PeerJ</i> 9:e11566
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