MCZ Invertebrate Zoology AST-2443

Porcellanaster waltharii Ludwig, 1905

Syntype of Porcellanaster waltharii

Date Collected:

1891-02-25

Pacific Ocean: Pacific, Eastern Central: Panama | Puerto Armuelles, Gulf of Chiriqui, Charco Azul Bay

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:AST-2443 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology AST-2443 Description: Preserved specimen.;

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Current Identification
Porcellanaster waltharii Ludwig, 1905 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Asteroidea Paxillosida Porcellanasteridae
Determiner: Hubert Ludwig
Nature of ID: type ID
Remarks: VALID NAME per WoRMs=Ermicaster crassus; Identification Made Date: 1905

Ludwig 1905, page 92, Syntype of Porcellanaster waltharii Ludwig, 1905 Plate V figs 26-27
Media type: image; Ludwig 1905 Description: Beschreibungen Der Asteroiden;

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Shows Publication: Ludwig 1905 Description: Beschreibungen Der Asteroiden

  • station number: 3361

Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (95% ethanol) fair 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=2022-11-18   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (70% ethanol) good in collection 3 History (3)

Attribute Value Determination On
age class young [no agent data]
age class adult [no agent data]
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

  • None

  • Eremicaster tenebrarius written on data card

  • None

  • Ocean:
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Pacific, Eastern Central
  • Country:
  • Panama
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Puerto Armuelles, Gulf of Chiriqui, Charco Azul Bay
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Charco Azul Bay, Puerto Armuelles
  • Depth:
  • 1471 fms
  • Georeference:
  • 6.16666666°, -83.000000° (Error radius: 115km) By: [no agent data] on 1891-02-25 (Source: Dredging and Hydrographic Records of the US Fisheries Steamer Albatross)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (6° 10′ 0″ N  83° 0′ 0″ W)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1891-02-25
  • Verbatim Date:
  • 25 Feb 1891
  • Collector:
  • USFC Steamer Albatross

  • None

  • None

  • [Masked]
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