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MCZ Invertebrate Zoology 72724

Phalacrostemma dorothyae Kirtley, 1994

Holotype of Phalacrostemma dorothyae

Date Collected:

1868-04-23

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: United States: Florida | Off Sombrero

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:72724 JSON-LD

Current Identification
Phalacrostemma dorothyae Kirtley, 1994
Animalia Annelida Polychaeta Terebellida Sabellariidae
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: type ID

Kirtley 1994, page 153, Holotype of Phalacrostemma dorothyae Kirtley, 1994 [publication details will follow PBenson 2018]

  • station number: 5, cast 2

Part Condition Disposition Count
whole animal (70% ethanol) unchecked in collection 3 History

  • None

  • "In Phalacrostemma tubes." Kirtley gives depth as 349.3 M. However, both S. Smith (1889) & MCZ Bull. Vol.VI, No. 1 give depth of 195 fms (=356.6m). Original labels not checked (C. abyssicola, MCZ 183, not found in Echinoderm collection, 23.i.2007). Returned in isopropyl alcohol, changed to 80% ethanol.

  • None

  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Western Central
  • Country:
  • United States
  • State/Province:
  • Florida
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Off Sombrero
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Off Sombrero
  • Depth:
  • 195 fms
  • Georeference:
  • 24.5875000°, -81.080000° (Error radius: 13902m) By: Penny Benson on 2017-06-16 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1868-04-23
  • Verbatim Date:
  • 23 April 1868
  • Collectors:
  • US Coast Survey, 1867-1871; Louis F. Pourtales; Steamer Bibb

  • None

  • None

  • [Masked]

  • None
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