MCZ Invertebrate Zoology AST-1779

Dytaster grandis (Verrill, 1884)

Syntype of Archaster grandis

Date Collected:

1883-11-06

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Northwest: United States | offshore from Delaware Bay

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:AST-1779 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology AST-1779 Description: Preserved specimen.;

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Shows Cataloged Item: MCZ:IZ:AST-1779 Dytaster grandis Syntype Description: ...

Current Identification
Dytaster grandis (Verrill, 1884) linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Asteroidea Paxillosida Astropectinidae
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Remarks: revised taxonomy fide WoRMS
Previous Identification
Archaster grandis AE Verrill, 1884
Animalia Echinodermata Asteroidea Valvatida Archasteridae
Determiner: Addison Emery Verrilllinked data icon in 1884
Nature of ID: type ID

Verrill 1884, Syntype of Archaster grandis AE Verrill, 1884
Media type: text; Verrill 1884 Description: Notice of the Remarkable Marine Fauna occupying the Outer Banks off the Southern Coast of New England;

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Shows Publication: Verrill 1884 Description: Notice of the Remarkable Marine Fauna occupying the Outer Banks off the Southern Coast of New England

  • station number: 2105

Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (95% ethanol) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: partial arm; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2022-11-18
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2022-11-15   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (70% ethanol) good in collection 2 History (3)

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-11-18
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Adam J. Baldinger 2023-03-23

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  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Northwest
  • Country:
  • United States
  • dwc:highergeographyID:
  • https://marineregions.org/mrgid/25365 linked data icon
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • offshore from Delaware Bay
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • [only station data]
  • Depth:
  • 1395 fms
  • Georeference:
  • 37.8333333°, -73.063888° (Error radius: Not Specified) By: [no agent data] on 1883-11-06 (Source: Dredging and Hydrographic Records of the US Fisheries Steamer Albatross)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (37° 50′ 0″ N  73° 3′ 50″ W)
  • Collecting Method:
  • Beam Trawl
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1883-11-06
  • Verbatim Date:
  • 6 Nov 1883
  • Collector:
  • USFC Steamer Albatross

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  • None

  • [Masked]
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