taxonID	type	description	language	source
3B7687F64230627BD671FC06FE4DFD8B.taxon	materials_examined	DORSAL DISC. Disc pentagonal to circular; high (above arm level). Integument obscuring plates. Dorsal disc without granules; with concealed primary plates; without scales (A. loveni Müller & Troschel, 1842) or a few (O’Hara et al. 2018); without spines. Dorsal disc scale / plate without tubercles. Radial shield present; without granules / spines; length more than half of the disc radius; bar-like. VENTRAL DISC. Gonads restricted to the disc. Ventral interradii without granules / spines. Scales on ventral interradii absent. Ventral teeth several (tooth papillae). Infradental papillae on oral plate absent. Buccal scales on OP absent. Accessory oral papillae on OP present. Lateral oral papillae on OP absent. Adoral shield spine absent. Lyman’s ossicle absent. Oral shield covering less than one third of interradius; about as long as wide. Madreporite one; with numerous pores. Adoral shield meeting in front of the oral shield. Abradial genital plate not twisted. Number of genital slits one per bursa. Genital slit shorter than half interradius. Genital papillae absent. Dental plate of equal width all over; entire (single plate). Dental sockets slit-shaped to circular; less than 50 % of the width. At least one socket on DP as depression or perforation without septum. Teeth spine-shaped. Teeth on DP arranged as covering the entire dental plate evenly. VERTEBRAE. Vertebrae hourglass-shaped (streptospondylous); beyond segment 5 with short keel (Fig. 3 C, E); without oral bridge.	en	Goharimanesh, Mona, Stöhr, Sabine, Mirshamsi, Omid, Ghassemzadeh, Fereshteh, Adriaens, Dominique (2021): Interactive identification key to all brittle star families (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) leads to revised morphological descriptions. European Journal of Taxonomy 766 (1): 1-63, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.766.1483, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.766.1483
