MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-155

Cryptopelta aster (Lyman, 1879)

Syntype of Ophiopeza aster

Date Collected:

1873-12-18

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Southeast: South Africa | Agulhas Bank, off Cape Colony

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-155 JSON-LD

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

Lyman 1879, page 50, Syntype of Ophiopeza aster Lyman, 1879 Plate XIV Figs. 395-397
Media type: text; Lyman 1879 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. VI no. 2;

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Shows Publication: Lyman 1879 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. VI no. 2

  • collector number: 2047
  • station number: 142

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) good 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
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Penny Benson 2021-08-12
Remarks: Localities vetted

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  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Southeast
  • Country:
  • South Africa
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Agulhas Bank, off Cape Colony
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • [coordinate data only]
  • Depth:
  • 150 fms
  • Georeference:
  • -35.066666°, 18.6166666° (Error radius: Unknown) By: [no agent data] on 1873-12-18 (Source: 'Challenger' Expedition List of Observing Stations - C. Wyville Thomson 1877)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (35° 4′ 0″ S  18° 37′ 0″ E)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1873-12-18
  • Verbatim Date:
  • December 18, 1873
  • Collector:
  • HMS Challenger Expedition 1873-1876

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  • None

  • [Masked]
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