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MCZ Invertebrate Zoology 83820

Nymphon australe Hodgson

Date Collected:

1935-01-27

Pacific Ocean: Pacific, Antarctic | Bay of Whales, Ross Ice Shelf

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:83820 JSON-LD

Current Identification
Nymphon australe Hodgson
Animalia Arthropoda Pycnogonida Nymphonidae
Determiner: C. Allan Child
Nature of ID: migration
Remarks: C.A. Child, 1980

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Part Condition Disposition Count
whole animal (70% ethanol) unchecked in collection 1 History

Attribute Value Determination On
sex male [no agent data]

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  • loose label reads: " Accession 5101 e " loose label reading "Nymphonidae" also has typed name "K.W. Cooper" locality data: see Child letter of 28 May 1997: " Bay of Whales was a large indentation in the ice shelf during one of Admiral Byrd's Antarctic expeditions and he named it. It was on the eastern side of the Ross Sea ice shelf and I think the date was 1938 (?) "

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  • Ocean:
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Pacific, Antarctic
  • Sovereign Nation:
  • [unknown]
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Bay of Whales, Ross Ice Shelf
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Antarctica, Ross Dependency, Bay of Whales, Ross Ice Shelf
  • Depth:
  • - 490 m
  • Georeference:
  • -78.508333, -164.34166 (Error radius: 115km) By: [no agent data] on 2011-03-06 (Source: unknown)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (78° 30′ ″ S  164° 20′ ″ W)
  • Collecting Method:
  • bottom dredging
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1935-01-27
  • Verbatim Date:
  • 27/1/1935
  • Collector:
  • [no agent data]

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  • [Masked]

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