MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1329

Amphiura mediterranea Lyman, 1882

Syntype of Amphiura mediterranea

Date Collected:

1873-01-01/1876-12-31

Atlantic Ocean: Mediterranean Sea: Italy: Tyrrhenian Sea | Gulf of Naples

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-1329 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1329 Description: Labels for this specimen included in the specimen tray.; Aspect: labels

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Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1329 Description: Top down view of single ophiuroid specimen with a scale bar.; Aspect: dorsal

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Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1329 Description: Bottom up view of single ophiuroid specimen with a scale bar.; Aspect: ventral

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Current Identification
Amphiura mediterranea Lyman, 1882 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Amphiuridae
Determiner: Theodore Lyman IIIlinked data icon
Nature of ID: type ID

Lyman 1882, page 142, Syntype of Amphiura mediterranea Lyman, 1882
Media type: text; Lyman 1882 Description: REPORT on the Ophiuroidea dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876;

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Shows Publication: Lyman 1882 Description: REPORT on the Ophiuroidea dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876

  • station number: unknown

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 2022-10-11
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2022-10-07   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (dry) good in collection 4 History (3)

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-10-07

  • None

  • Lyman description says "form typical of the Mediterranean Sea"

  • None

  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Sea:
  • Mediterranean Sea
  • Water Feature:
  • Tyrrhenian Sea
  • Country:
  • Italy
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Gulf of Naples
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Naples
  • Georeference:
  • 40.6980440°, 14.2172290° (Error radius: 23000m) By: Murat Recevik on 2020-04-13 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1873-01-01 / 1876-12-31
  • Verbatim Date:
  • 1873-1876
  • Collector:
  • HMS Challenger Expedition 1873-1876

  • None

  • None

  • [Masked]
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