MCZ Invertebrate Zoology AST-3727

Oreaster reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Holotype of Oreaster reticulatus var. bermudensis

Date Collected:

1939-04

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: Bermuda | Ferry Reach

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:AST-3727 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology AST-3727 Description: Preserved specimen.;

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Shows Cataloged Item: MCZ:IZ:AST-3727 Oreaster reticulatus Holotype Description

Current Identification
Oreaster reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Asteroidea Valvatida Oreasteridae
Common Name(s): cushioned star
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Previous Identification
Oreaster reticulatus var. bermudensis H.L. Clark, 1942
Animalia Echinodermata Asteroidea Valvatida Oreasteridae
Determiner: Hubert Lyman Clarklinked data icon in 1942
Nature of ID: type ID

Clark 1942, page 372, Holotype of Oreaster reticulatus var. bermudensis H.L. Clark, 1942 Figures 1 and 2
Cunha et al. 2020, page 44, Voucher of Oreaster reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4742.1.2 linked data icon
Media type: text; Clark 1942 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. LXXXIX no. 8;

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Shows Publication: Clark 1942 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. LXXXIX no. 8

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Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (dry) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: spine on arm; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2022-12-13
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2022-12-09   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (dry) good in collection 1 History (3)

Attribute Value Determination On
age class adult [no agent data]
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Adam J. Baldinger 2023-03-23
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-12-13

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  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Western Central
  • Country:
  • Bermuda
  • Sovereign Nation:
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Ferry Reach
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Bermuda, Ferry Reach
  • Georeference:
  • 32.3671980°, -64.701195° (Error radius: 1324m) By: Adam J. Baldinger on 2020-06-26 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1939-04-01 / 1939-04-30
  • Verbatim Date:
  • April 1939
  • Collector:
  • John F. G. Wheeler

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