MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1437

Amphipholis pentacantha H.L. Clark, 1915

Holotype of Amphipholis pentacantha

Date Collected:

1879-02-15

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: Saint Lucia | off St. Lucia

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-1437 JSON-LD

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Current Identification
Amphipholis pentacantha H.L. Clark, 1915 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Amphiuridae
Determiner: Hubert Lyman Clarklinked data icon in 1915
Nature of ID: type ID

Clark 1915, page 241, Holotype of Amphipholis pentacantha H.L. Clark, 1915 Plate 6 figs 1, 2
Media type: text; Clark 1915 Description: MCZ Memoirs Vol. XXV no. 4;

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Shows Publication: Clark 1915 Description: MCZ Memoirs Vol. XXV no. 4

  • station number: 215

Part Condition Disposition Count
partial animal (dry) fair in collection 1 History
tissue (dry) ok in collection 1 History (3)
Remarks: partial arm; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2022-10-14
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2022-10-14   determined by=Nina Black  

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-10-14
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Penny Benson 2021-09-27
Remarks: Localities vetted

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  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Western Central
  • Country:
  • Saint Lucia
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • off St. Lucia
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • off St. Lucia
  • Depth:
  • 226 fms
  • Georeference:
  • 13.8583333°, -61.062500° (Error radius: Unknown) By: [no agent data] on 1879-02-12 (Source: Lists of Dredging Stations in North American Water from 1867-1887 by Sanderson Smith)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (13° 51′ 30″ N  61° 3′ 45″ W)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1879-02-15
  • Verbatim Date:
  • February 15, 1879
  • Collector:
  • USCSS Blake Expeditions

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  • [Masked]
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