MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-2133

Ophiomyces frutectosus Lyman, 1869

Paratype of Ophiomyces frutectosus

Date Collected:

1869-05-07

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: United States: Florida | Off Tennessee Reef

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-2133 JSON-LD

Current Identification
Ophiomyces frutectosus Lyman, 1869 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiohelidae
Determiner: Theodore Lyman IIIlinked data icon
Nature of ID: type ID
Remarks: Identification made date: 1869

de Pourtales and Lyman 1869, page 345, Paratype of Ophiomyces frutectosus Lyman, 1869
Media type: text; de Pourtales and Lyman 1869 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. I no. 10;

(Media Record) (Related) (File)

Shows Publication: de Pourtales and Lyman 1869 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. I no. 10

  • collector number: 599
  • other number: cast 8
  • station number: 181P

Part Condition Disposition Count
whole animal (dry) broken in collection 1 History (3)

  • None

  • None

  • specimen description in life "Arms white with orange dorsal stripe, disk pink with greenish star & orange specks at base of white spines"

  • None

  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Western Central
  • Country:
  • United States
  • State/Province:
  • Florida
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Off Tennessee Reef
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Off Tennessee Reef
  • Depth:
  • 160 fms
  • Georeference:
  • 24.5208333°, -80.583333° (Error radius: Unknown) By: [no agent data] on 1869-05-07 (Source: Lists of Dredging Stations in North American Water from 1867-1887 by Sanderson Smith)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (24° 31′ 15″ N  80° 35′ 0″ W)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1869-05-07
  • Verbatim Date:
  • May 7, 1869
  • Collectors:
  • Steamer Bibb; Louis F. Pourtales

  • None

  • None

  • [Masked]

  • None
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