original description
Okanishi, M.; Oba, Y.; Fujita, Y. (2019). Brittle stars from a submarine cave of Christmas Island, northwestern Australia, with description of a new bioluminescent species Ophiopsila xmasilluminans (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) and notes on its behaviour. <em>Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.</em> 67: 421-439., available online at https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2019-0034 [details]
Holotype WAM Z99800, geounit Christmas Island part of the Indian Ocean [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology The specific name is an adjective in apposition formed as a compound of the island name “xmas” and the Latin participle, illuminans, meaning “lighting”, referring to its sampling locality name (Christmas Island) and luminescence. [details]
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English |
Christmas-light brittle star |
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