MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-2146

Ophiohelus umbella Lyman, 1880

Holotype of Ophiohelus umbella

Date Collected:

1879-03-10

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: Barbados | off Barbados

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-2146 JSON-LD

Current Identification
Ophiohelus umbella Lyman, 1880 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiacanthidae
Determiner: Theodore Lyman IIIlinked data icon in 1880
Nature of ID: type ID

Lyman 1880, page 5, Holotype of Ophiohelus umbella Lyman, 1880 Plate 1, figs 4-10
Media type: text; Lyman 1880 Description: A Structural Feature, Hitherto Unknown Among Echinodermata, Found in Deep-Sea Ophiurans;

(Media Record) (Related) (File)

Shows Publication: Lyman 1880 Description: A Structural Feature, Hitherto Unknown Among Echinodermata, Found in Deep-Sea Ophiurans

  • station number: 300

Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (dry) poor; broken in many pieces in collection 1 History (3)
Remarks: partial arm; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2022-11-04
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2022-10-28   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (dry) poor (broken arms) in collection 1 History

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-11-04
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Penny Benson 2021-08-06
Remarks: Localities vetted

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  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Western Central
  • Country:
  • Barbados
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • off Barbados
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Off Barbados
  • Depth:
  • 82 fms
  • Georeference:
  • 13.1083333°, -59.655555° (Error radius: Unknown) By: [no agent data] on 1879-03-10 (Source: Lists of Dredging Stations in North American Water from 1867-1887 by Sanderson Smith)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (13° 6′ 30″ N  59° 39′ 20″ W)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1879-03-10
  • Verbatim Date:
  • March 10, 1879
  • Collector:
  • USCSS Blake Expeditions

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  • [Masked]
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