MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-5623

Ophiothrix galapagensis Lütken & Mortensen, 1899

Date Collected:

1938-01-19

Pacific Ocean: Pacific, Southeast: Ecuador: Galápagos: Galapagos Archipelago | [coordinate data only]

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-5623 JSON-LD

Current Identification
Ophiothrix galapagensis Lütken & Mortensen, 1899 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiotrichidae
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: legacy
Remarks: Originally ID'ed as Placophiothrix galapagensis.

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  • station number: 788-38

Part Condition Disposition Count
whole animal (dry) unchecked unknown 7 History

Attribute Value Determination On
age class young [no agent data]
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Jennifer Goldstein 2022-03-24

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  • Ocean:
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Pacific, Southeast
  • Country:
  • Ecuador
  • State/Province:
  • Galápagos
  • Island Group:
  • Galapagos Archipelago
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • [coordinate data only]
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Ecuador: Galapagos, southeast of Daphne Major Island
  • Depth:
  • 55 fms
  • Georeference:
  • -0.4500000°, -90.363888° (Error radius: Not Specified) By: RV Velero III on 1938-01-19 (Source: Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions - General Account of the Scientific Work of the Velero III in the Eastern Pacific, 1931-41)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (0° 27′ 0″ S  90° 21′ 50″ W)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1938-01-19
  • Verbatim Date:
  • January 19, 1938
  • Collecting Event Remarks:
  • Coral, sand.
  • Collectors:
  • RV Velero III; Hancock Pacific Expeditions

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