MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-507

Ophiomusium variabile Lütken & Mortensen, 1899

Syntype of Ophiomusium variabile

Date Collected:

1891-04-11

Pacific Ocean: Pacific, Eastern Central: Mexico | Acapulco

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-507 JSON-LD

Current Identification
Ophiomusium variabile Lütken & Mortensen, 1899 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiolepididae
Determiner: Hubert Ludwig in 1905
Nature of ID: type ID

Lutken and Mortensen 1899, page 135, Syntype of Ophiomusium variabile Lütken & Mortensen, 1899 plate IV figs 4-6
Media type: text; Lutken and Mortensen 1899 Description: MCZ Memoirs Vol. XXIII no. 2;

(Media Record) (Related) (File)

Shows Publication: Lutken and Mortensen 1899 Description: MCZ Memoirs Vol. XXIII no. 2

  • station number: 3417

Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (dry) fair 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) broken - fair - arms missing in collection 2 History

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-11-04

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  • Ocean:
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Pacific, Eastern Central
  • Country:
  • Mexico
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Acapulco
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • off Acapulco Mexico
  • Depth:
  • 493 fms
  • Georeference:
  • 16.5333333°, -99.800000° (Error radius: Unknown) By: [no agent data] on 1891-04-11 (Source: Dredging and Hydrographic Records of the US Fisheries Steamer Albatross)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (16° 32′ 0″ N  99° 48′ 0″ W)
  • Collecting Method:
  • Small Beam Trawl
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1891-04-11
  • Verbatim Date:
  • 11 April 1891
  • Collector:
  • USFC Steamer Albatross

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  • [Masked]
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