MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1095

Ophiostigma abnorme (Lyman, 1878)

Syntype of Ophiostigma africanum

Date Collected:

1873-07-27

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Eastern Central: Cape Verde | Barlavento islands, São Vicente

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-1095 JSON-LD

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Current Identification
Ophiostigma abnorme (Lyman, 1878) linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Amphiuridae
Determiner: [no agent data] on 2015-03-02
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Remarks: revised taxonomy fide WoRMS
Previous Identification
Ophiostigma africanum Lyman, 1879 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Amphiuridae
Determiner: Theodore Lyman IIIlinked data icon in 1879
Nature of ID: type ID

Lyman 1879, page 41, Syntype of Ophiostigma africanum Lyman, 1879 Plate XIII Figs. 368-370
Media type: text; Lyman 1879 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. VI no. 2;

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  • station number: 93

Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (dry) good in collection 1 History (3)
Remarks: partial arm; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2022-09-30
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (dry) broken in collection 1 History

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-09-27

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  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Eastern Central
  • Country:
  • Cape Verde
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Barlavento islands, São Vicente
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • St. Vincent, Cape de Verde Islands
  • Georeference:
  • 16.8486580°, -24.974018° (Error radius: 17409m) By: Penny Benson on 2021-03-04 (Source: 'Challenger Expedition' List of Observing Stations C. Wyville Thomson 1877)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1873-07-27
  • Verbatim Date:
  • July 27, 1873
  • Collector:
  • HMS Challenger Expedition 1873-1876

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