MCZ Invertebrate Zoology CNID-2780

Dasmosmilia variegata (Pourtalès, 1871)

Syntype of Parasmilia variegata

Date Collected:

1868-01-01/1869-12-31

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: United States: Florida | Florida Straits

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Current Identification
Dasmosmilia variegata (Pourtalès, 1871) linked data icon
Animalia Cnidaria Anthozoa Scleractinia Caryophylliidae
Determiner: Louis F. Pourtales in 1880
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Previous Identification
Parasmilia variegata Pourtales, 1871 linked data icon
Animalia Cnidaria Anthozoa Scleractinia Caryophylliidae
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: type ID

de Pourtales 1871, page 21, Syntype of Parasmilia variegata Pourtales, 1871 Plate I, figure 13
de Pourtales 1880, page 109, Voucher of Dasmosmilia variegata (Pourtalès, 1871) Plate 2, figures 11 & 12
Cairns 1979, page 134, Voucher of Dasmosmilia variegata (Pourtalès, 1871) Plate XXV, figures 4-7, 10; Plate XXVI, figure 1
Media type: text; de Pourtales 1871 Description: MCZ Memoirs Vol. II no. 2;

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Media type: text; de Pourtales 1880 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. VI no. 4;

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Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (dry) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: tissue; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2023-06-30
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2023-06-23   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (unknown) unchecked in collection 0 History

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2023-06-30

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  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Western Central
  • Country:
  • United States
  • State/Province:
  • Florida
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Florida Straits
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Florida Straits
  • Depth:
  • 68 - 315 fms
  • Locality Remarks:
  • Conch Reef is from Bibb stations 201 and 202, Carysfort Reef is from station 151. Both are referenced in Cairns 1979 paper
  • Georeference:
  • 25.0738610°, -80.333103° (Error radius: 40000m) By: Penny Benson on 2020-11-24 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1868-01-01 / 1869-12-31
  • Verbatim Date:
  • 1868-1869
  • Collector:
  • US Coast Survey, 1867-1871

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Media type: text; Invertebrate Zoology CNID-2776; CNID-2777; CNID-2778; CNID-2779; CNID-2780; CNID-2781; CNID-2782; CNID-2783; CNID-2784; CNID-2785; CNID-2786; CNID-2787; CNID-2788; CNID-2789; CNID-2790; CNID-2791; CNID-2795; CNID-2798 Description: MCZ Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria 000001-006000, pg.113;

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