MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1936

Ophiacantha cosmica Lyman, 1878

Syntype of Ophiacantha cosmica

Date Collected:

1874-02-14

Indian Ocean: Indian Ocean, Antarctic and Southern: Antarctica | off Antarctica

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-1936 JSON-LD

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Current Identification
Ophiacantha cosmica Lyman, 1878 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiacanthidae
Determiner: Theodore Lyman IIIlinked data icon in 1878
Nature of ID: type ID

Lyman 1878, page 146, Syntype of Ophiacantha cosmica Lyman, 1878 Plate X figs 251, 252
Media type: text; Lyman 1878 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. V no. 7;

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  • station number: 153

Part Condition Disposition Count
whole animal (dry) poor broken in collection 3 History (3)

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  • Ocean:
  • Indian Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Indian Ocean, Antarctic and Southern
  • Country:
  • Antarctica
  • Sovereign Nation:
  • [antarctic treaty area]
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • off Antarctica
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Antarctica
  • Depth:
  • 1675 fms
  • Georeference:
  • -65.700000°, 79.8166666° (Error radius: Not Specified) By: [no agent data] on 1874-02-14 (Source: 'Challenger' Expedition List of Observing Stations - C. Wyville Thomson 1877)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (65° 42′ 0″ S  79° 49′ 0″ E)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1874-02-14
  • Verbatim Date:
  • February 14, 1874
  • Collector:
  • HMS Challenger Expedition 1873-1876

  • None

  • None

  • [Masked]
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