MCZ Invertebrate Zoology 61792

Euplectella jovis Schmidt, 1880

Syntype of Euplectella jovis

Date Collected:

1879-03-01

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: Grenada | off Grenada

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:61792 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology 61792 Description: Preserved specimen.;

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Current Identification
Euplectella jovis Schmidt, 1880
Animalia Porifera Hexactinellida Hexasterophora Lyssacinosida Euplectellidae Euplectellinae
Determiner: Edward Oskar Schmidt in 1879
Nature of ID: type ID

Schmidt 1879, page 60, Syntype of Euplectella jovis Schmidt, 1880 Plate VI, figs. 7, 11
Media type: text; Schmidt 1879 Description: Die Spongien des Meerbusens von Mexico;

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Shows Publication: Schmidt 1879 Description: Die Spongien des Meerbusens von Mexico

  • station number: 264

Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (dry) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: tissue; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2023-09-08
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2023-09-01   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (dry) good in collection 1 History (3)
Remarks: specimen originally in ethanol

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Penny Benson 2021-07-19
Remarks: Localities vetted
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2023-09-08

  • None

  • [There was also a handwritten label stating that MCZ No. 8136, Corallistes clavatella Schmidt (alc.) was borrowed by W.D. Hartman, Yale, July 7, 1962. per Ardis Johnston 2004, note not found with specimen September 2017, PBenson]

  • None

  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Western Central
  • Country:
  • Grenada
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • off Grenada
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Grenada
  • Depth:
  • 416 fms
  • Georeference:
  • 12.0541666°, -61.808333° (Error radius: Not Specified) By: [no agent data] on 1879-03-01 (Source: Lists of Dredging Stations in North American Water from 1867-1887 by Sanderson Smith)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (12° 3′ 15″ N  61° 48′ 30″ W)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1879-03-01
  • Verbatim Date:
  • March 1, 1879
  • Collector:
  • USCSS Blake Expeditions

  • None

  • None

  • [Masked]
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