MCZ Invertebrate Zoology AST-21

Pontaster tenuispinus (Düben & Koren, 1846)

Syntype of Pontaster hebitus

Date Collected:

1873-05-20

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Northwest: Canada | off Nova Scotia, south of Halifax

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:AST-21 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology AST-21 Description: Specimen Image;

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Current Identification
Pontaster tenuispinus (Düben & Koren, 1846) linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Asteroidea Notomyotida Benthopectinidae
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Previous Identification
Pontaster hebitus Sladen, 1889 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Asteroidea Notomyotida Benthopectinidae
Determiner: W. Percy Sladen in 1889
Nature of ID: type ID

Sladen 1889, page 3, Syntype of Pontaster hebitus Sladen, 1889 Pl. VIII. figs. 1 and 2 ; Pl. XII, figs. 1 and 2

  • station number: 49

Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (dry) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: partial arm; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2022-12-02
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2022-12-02   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (dry) good in collection 1 History (3)

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-12-02
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Adam J. Baldinger 2023-03-23

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  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Northwest
  • Country:
  • Canada
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • off Nova Scotia, south of Halifax
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Nova Scotia: S of Halifax
  • Depth:
  • 85 fms
  • Georeference:
  • 43.0500000°, -63.650000° (Error radius: Not Specified) By: [no agent data] on 1873-05-20 (Source: 'Challenger Expedition' List of Observing Stations C. Wyville Thomson 1877)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (43° 3′ 0″ N  63° 39′ 0″ W)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1873-05-20
  • Verbatim Date:
  • May 20, 1873
  • Collecting Event Remarks:
  • Bottom temp: 1.8° C; gravel, stones
  • Collector:
  • HMS Challenger Expedition 1873-1876

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