MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-917

Ophiura (Ophiuroglypha) ambigua (Lyman, 1878)

Syntype of Ophioglypha ambigua

Date Collected:

1874-01-29

Indian Ocean: Indian Ocean, Antarctic and Southern: Territory of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands | Iles Kerguelen: Baie de L'Oiseau

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-917 JSON-LD

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Current Identification
Ophiura (Ophiuroglypha) ambigua (Lyman, 1878) linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Asterozoa Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiurina Ophiuridae
Determiner: [no agent data] on 2015-02-18
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Remarks: revised taxonomy fide WoRMS
Previous Identification
Ophioglypha ambigua Lyman, 1869
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiuridae
Determiner: Theodore Lyman IIIlinked data icon in 1878
Nature of ID: type ID

Lyman 1878, page 79, Syntype of Ophioglypha ambigua Lyman, 1869 plate II figs 47, 48
Media type: text; Lyman 1878 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. V no. 7;

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  • station number: 149 (based on label information)

Part Condition Disposition Count
partial animal (70% ethanol) completely destroyed in collection <1 History
tissue (95% ethanol) poor; completely disintegrated in collection 1 History
Remarks: unknown (specimen disintegrated, parts mixed); sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2022-11-18
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2022-11-08   determined by=Nina Black  

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-11-18

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  • Ocean:
  • Indian Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Indian Ocean, Antarctic and Southern
  • Country:
  • Territory of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands
  • Sovereign Nation:
  • [antarctic treaty area]
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Iles Kerguelen: Baie de L'Oiseau
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • French Southern & Antarctic Lands, Kerguelen Islands, off Christmas Harbor
  • Depth:
  • 28 fms
  • Georeference:
  • -48.686573°, 69.0547500° (Error radius: 647m) By: Penny Benson on 2021-08-12 (Source: GEOLocate and 'Challenger' Expedition List of Observing Stations - C. Wyville Thomson 1877)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1874-01-29
  • Verbatim Date:
  • January 29, 1874
  • Collector:
  • HMS Challenger Expedition 1873-1876

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