MCZ Invertebrate Zoology AST-218

Archaster mirabilis Perrier, 1881

Holotype of Pontaster oligoporus  
  Syntype of Archaster mirabilis

Date Collected:

1879-01-13

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: Saba | Saba Island, Off Saba Bank

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:AST-218 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology AST-218 Description: Preserved specimen.;

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Shows Cataloged Item: MCZ:IZ:AST-218 Archaster mirabilis Holotype Description

Current Identification
Archaster mirabilis Perrier, 1881 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Asteroidea Valvatida Archasteridae
Determiner: Edmond Perrier in 1881
Nature of ID: type ID
Previous Identification
Pontaster oligoporus Perrier, 1894 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Asteroidea Notomyotida Benthopectinidae
Determiner: Edmond Perrier
Nature of ID: type ID
Remarks: confirmed by Ailsa M. Clark 1980; Identification Made Date: 1894

Perrier 1881, page 27, Syntype of Archaster mirabilis Perrier, 1881
Perrier 1894, Holotype of Pontaster oligoporus Perrier, 1894
Media type: text; Perrier 1881 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. IX no. 1;

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Shows Publication: Perrier 1881 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. IX no. 1

  • station number: 143

Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (dry) poor; arms disintegrated in collection 1 History
Remarks: partial arm; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2022-12-13
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2022-12-06   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (dry) poor in collection 1 History (3)
Remarks: found dry 1998 and 2007

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Penny Benson 2021-09-22
Remarks: Localities vetted
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-12-13

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  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Western Central
  • Country:
  • Saba
  • Sovereign Nation:
  • Netherlands
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Saba Island, Off Saba Bank
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Off Saba Bank
  • Depth:
  • 150 fms
  • Georeference:
  • 17.5000000°, -63.709722° (Error radius: Unknown) By: [no agent data] on 1879-01-13 (Source: Lists of Dredging Stations in North American Water from 1867-1887 by Sanderson Smith)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (17° 30′ 0″ N  63° 42′ 35″ W)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1879-01-13
  • Verbatim Date:
  • January 13, 1879
  • Collector:
  • USCSS Blake Expeditions

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