MCZ Invertebrate Zoology CNID-2774

Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) cyathoides (Pourtales, 1871)

Holotype of Dendrophyllia cyathoides

Date Collected:

1867-05-01/1867-05-31

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: Cuba | off Havana

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:CNID-2774 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology CNID-2774 Description: Preserved specimen.;

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Current Identification
Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) cyathoides (Pourtales, 1871) linked data icon
Animalia Cnidaria Anthozoa Scleractinia Dendrophylliidae
Determiner: [no agent data] in 2020
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Remarks: revised taxonomy fide WoRMS
Previous Identifications
Dendrophyllia cyathoides Pourtales, 1871 linked data icon
Animalia Cnidaria Anthozoa Scleractinia Dendrophylliidae
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: type ID
Balanophyllia cyathoides (Pourtales, 1871) linked data icon
Animalia Cnidaria Anthozoa Scleractinia Dendrophylliidae
Determiner: Stephen D. CairnsORCID iD icon in 1979
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy

de Pourtales 1871, page 45, Holotype of Dendrophyllia cyathoides Pourtales, 1871 Plate i, figs. 8, 9
Cairns 1979, page 172, Voucher of Balanophyllia cyathoides (Pourtales, 1871) Plate XXXIII, figures 9-10; Plate XXXIV, figures 1-2
Media type: text; de Pourtales 1871 Description: MCZ Memoirs Vol. II no. 2;

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Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (dry) good in collection 1 History (3)
Remarks: tissue; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2023-06-13
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2023-05-26   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (unknown) unchecked in collection 0 History

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2023-06-16

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  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Western Central
  • Country:
  • Cuba
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • off Havana
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Cuba, Havana
  • Depth:
  • 270 fms
  • Georeference:
  • 23.2254730°, -82.511281° (Error radius: 19366m) By: Penny Benson on 2020-03-13 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1867-05-01 / 1867-05-31
  • Verbatim Date:
  • likely May 1867
  • Collecting Event Remarks:
  • collector likely the Corwin
  • Collector:
  • US Coast Survey, 1867-1871

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Media type: text; Invertebrate Zoology CNID-2752; CNID-2754; CNID-2755; CNID-2756; CNID-2757; CNID-2758; CNID-2759; CNID-2760; CNID-2761; CNID-2762; CNID-2763; CNID-2765; CNID-2766; CNID-2767; CNID-2768; CNID-2769; CNID-2770; CNID-2771; CNID-2772; CNID-2773; CNID-2774; CNID-2775 Description: MCZ Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria 000001-006000, pg.112;

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