MCZ Invertebrate Zoology AST-2091

Astropecten andersoni Sladen, 1888

Syntype of Astropecten Andersoni

Date Collected:

1882-02-01/1882-02-28

Indian Ocean: Indian Ocean, Eastern | off Myanmar: Mergui

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:AST-2091 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology AST-2091 Description: Preserved specimen.;

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Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology AST-2091 Description: whole body; Aspect: dorsal

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Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology AST-2091 Description: whole body; Aspect: ventral

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Current Identification
Astropecten andersoni Sladen, 1888 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Asteroidea Paxillosida Astropectinidae
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Previous Identification
Astropecten Andersoni Sladen, 1888
Animalia Echinodermata Asteroidea Paxillosida Astropectinidae
Determiner: W. Percy Sladen in 1886
Nature of ID: type ID

Sladen 1886, page 322, Syntype of Astropecten Andersoni Sladen, 1888
Media type: text; Sladen 1886 Description: On the Asteroidea of the Mergui Archipelago;

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Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (dry) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: partial arm; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2022-12-02
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2022-11-18   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (dry) good in collection 1 History (3)

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-12-02
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Adam J. Baldinger 2023-03-23

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  • Ocean:
  • Indian Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Indian Ocean, Eastern
  • Sovereign Nation:
  • Myanmar
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • off Myanmar: Mergui
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Mergui (Burma)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1882-02-01 / 1882-02-28
  • Verbatim Date:
  • February 1882
  • Collector:
  • John Anderson

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