MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1937

Ophiacantha cosmica Lyman, 1878

Syntype of Ophiacantha cosmica

Date Collected:

1873-12-30

Indian Ocean: Indian Ocean, Antarctic and Southern: Territory of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands | Crozet Islands

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-1937 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: 147

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 date=2022-09-27   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (dry) poor broken in collection 3 History (3)

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:
  • Indian Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Indian Ocean, Antarctic and Southern
  • Country:
  • Territory of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands
  • Sovereign Nation:
  • France
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Crozet Islands
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • [coordinate data only]
  • Depth:
  • 1600 fms
  • Georeference:
  • -46.266666°, 48.4500000° (Error radius: Not Specified) By: [no agent data] on 1873-12-30 (Source: 'Challenger' Expedition List of Observing Stations - C. Wyville Thomson 1877)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (46° 16′ 0″ S  48° 27′ 0″ E)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1873-12-30
  • Verbatim Date:
  • December 30, 1873
  • Collector:
  • HMS Challenger Expedition 1873-1876

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  • None

  • [Masked]
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