MCZ Invertebrate Zoology AST-2299

Indianastra sarasini

Holotype of Asterina nuda

Date Collected:

1913-09-30

Pacific Ocean: Pacific, Western Central: Australia | Murray Island, S side of Weier

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:AST-2299 JSON-LD

Current Identification
Indianastra sarasini
Animalia Echinodermata Asteroidea Valvatida Asterinidae
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Remarks: revised taxonomy fide WoRMS
Previous Identification
Asterina nuda HL Clark, 1921 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Asterozoa Asteroidea Valvatida Asterinidae
Determiner: Hubert Lyman Clarklinked data icon in 1921
Nature of ID: type ID

Clark 1921, page 98, Holotype of Asterina nuda HL Clark, 1921 plate 23 fiugres 3 and 4
Media type: text; Clark 1921 Description: Echinoderm Fauna of Torres Strait;

(Media Record) (Related) (File)

Shows Publication: Clark 1921 Description: Echinoderm Fauna of Torres Strait

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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 2022-12-13
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2022-12-06   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 2022-12-13
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Adam J. Baldinger 2023-03-23

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  • description in life by HL Clark "Upper surface deep pearl gray; area around anus bright orange, madrepore plate white, Lower surface faintly mottled rown-orange & white."

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  • Ocean:
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Pacific, Western Central
  • Country:
  • Australia
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Murray Island, S side of Weier
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Murray Is., S side of Weier
  • Habitat Description:
  • under side of rock fragment, shallow water
  • Georeference:
  • -9.9347750°, 144.058619° (Error radius: 1431m) By: Penny Benson on 2014-09-29 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1913-09-30
  • Verbatim Date:
  • September 30, 1913
  • Collector:
  • Carnegie Expedition to the Torres Strait

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