MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-2883

Ophiocreas spinulosus Lyman, 1883

Syntype of Ophiocreas spinulosus

Date Collected:

1879-02-11

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

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-2883 JSON-LD

Current Identification
Ophiocreas spinulosus Lyman, 1883 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Euryalida Euryalidae
Determiner: Theodore Lyman IIIlinked data icon in 1883
Nature of ID: type ID

  • station number: 208

Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (95% ethanol) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: partial arm; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2022-11-18
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2022-11-04   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (70% ethanol) good in collection 9 History

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-11-18
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Penny Benson 2021-09-15
Remarks: Localities vetted

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  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Western Central
  • Country:
  • Martinique
  • Sovereign Nation:
  • France
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • off Martinique
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Off Martinique
  • Depth:
  • 213 fms
  • Georeference:
  • 14.4208333°, -60.913888° (Error radius: Unknown) By: [no agent data] on 1879-02-11 (Source: Lists of Dredging Stations in North American Water from 1867-1887 by Sanderson Smith)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (14° 25′ 15″ N  60° 54′ 50″ W)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1879-02-11
  • Verbatim Date:
  • February 11, 1879
  • Collector:
  • USCSS Blake Expeditions

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