MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-4149

Ophiactis muelleri Lütken, 1856

Holotype of Ophiactis cyanosticta

Date Collected:

1916-04-01/1916-04-30

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: Trinidad and Tobago: Tobago | Buccoo Bay

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-4149 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-4149 Description: dry specimen;

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Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-4149 Description: dry specimen;

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Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-4149 Description: dry specimen;

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Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-4149 Description: arms of spcimen;

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Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-4149 Description: dorsal view of specimen;

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Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-4149 Description: dorsal view of specimen;

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Current Identification
Ophiactis muelleri Lütken, 1856 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiactidae
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Remarks: revised taxonomy fide WoRMS
Previous Identification
Ophiactis cyanosticta H.L. Clark, 1918 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiactidae
Determiner: Hubert Lyman Clarklinked data icon
Nature of ID: type ID
Remarks: Reviewed by Gordon Hendler May 2013; Identification Made Date: 1918

Clark 1918, page 307, Holotype of Ophiactis cyanosticta H.L. Clark, 1918 plate 4, fig. 3,4
Media type: text; Clark 1918 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. LXII no. 6;

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Shows Publication: Clark 1918 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. LXII no. 6

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Part Condition Disposition Count
fragment (dry) good deaccessioned - used up 1 History
Remarks: SEM sampled by Quetzalli Hernandez July 2014
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=2022-09-30   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (dry) good in collection 1 History (3)
Remarks: Photographed by Quetzalli Hernandez July 2014; photographed by Noe Salgado Ortiz September 2015

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:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Western Central
  • Country:
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Island:
  • Tobago
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Buccoo Bay
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Buccoo Bay, Tobago
  • Georeference:
  • 11.1778820°, -60.811479° (Error radius: 647m) By: Penny Benson on 2014-05-01 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1916-04-01 / 1916-04-30
  • Verbatim Date:
  • April 1916
  • Collectors:
  • Hubert Lyman Clarklinked data icon; Carnegie Institute Expedition 1916-1917

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  • Deaccessioned
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