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  • Invertebrate Zoology 93331 MCZ Invertebrate Zoology
  • Phalacrostemma dorothyae
  • whole animal (70% ethanol)
  • off Sand Key
  • Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: Gulf of Mexico: United States: Florida
  • May 11, 1868
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Identifications
Phalacrostemma dorothyae Kirtley, 1994
Animalia Annelida Polychaeta Terebellida Sabellariidae Phalacrostemma dorothyae
Identified by David W. Kirtley
Nature of ID: migration
Remarks: D. W. Kirtley
Locality and Collecting Event Details
Continent/Ocean: Atlantic Ocean
Country: United States
State/Province: Florida
Specific Locality: off Sand Key
Verbatim Locality: Florida, off Sand Key
Collecting Source: wild caught
Depth: 152 fms
Coordinates: 24° 26´ 10´´ N 81° 47´ 30´´ W (Datum: unknown) , Error: 0 m
[no agent data]; 1868-05-11; Source: unknown
Collecting Date: May 11, 1868
Collectors
US Coast Survey, 1867-1871
Louis F. Pourtales
Steamer Bibb
Identifiers
previous number: MCZ183
station number: cast 2
Part Details
Part Name Condition Disposition # Remarks
whole animal (70% ethanol) unchecked in collection 1
Attributes
host: Cidaris abyssicola (A. Agassiz), MCZ 183 (Echinoderms)
  [no agent data], 2011-03-06, migration
citation: Kirtley, David W., 1865. A Review and Taxonomic Revision of the Family Sabellariidae Johnston, 1865 (Annelida: Polychaeta), 153-154.
  [no agent data], 2011-03-06, migration
Remarks: Separated from Cidaris abyssicola (MCZ 183) by D. W. Kirtley. 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). Returned in isopropyl alcohol, changed to 80% EtOH. Ex-Marine Invertebrates catalog number is MCZ 183, G. C. Brooks, 12.ii.2010. Rehoused in 70% EtOH. Handwritten jar label reads: "empty - no worms"; tubes only.
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