MCZ Invertebrate Zoology DIPL-4300

Siphonophora proxima Chamberlin, 1918

Holotype of Siphonophora proxima

Date Collected:

[date unknown] prior to 2011-03-06

Central America: Haiti: Greater Antilles: Hispaniola | [no specific locality data]

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:DIPL-4300 JSON-LD

Current Identification
Siphonophora proxima Chamberlin, 1918
Animalia Arthropoda Diplopoda Helminthomorpha Siphonophorida Siphonophoridae
Determiner: Ralph V. Chamberlin
Nature of ID: type ID

Chamberlin 1918, page 173, Holotype of Siphonophora proxima Chamberlin, 1918 p. 173. "Type.--M. C. Z. 4,300. Paratype.--M. C. Z. 4,301. Haiti. W. M. Mann."
Media type: text; Chamberlin 1918 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. LXII no. 5;

(Media Record) (Related) (File)

Shows Publication: Chamberlin 1918 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. LXII no. 5

  • collection number: RVC-4300

Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (95% ethanol) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: ~5 legs: L, from about halfway down body; subsampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2025-05-23
subsampled by = Zoe Flores   determined date=2025-05-01   determined by=Zoe FloresORCID iD icon  
whole animal (70% ethanol) good in collection 1 History (3)

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Zoe Flores 2025-05-01

  • None

  • In "List of Chamberlin Species" file; with number.

  • None

  • Continent:
  • Central America
  • Country:
  • Haiti
  • Island Group:
  • Greater Antilles
  • Island:
  • Hispaniola
  • dwc:highergeographyID:
  • http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7005502 linked data icon
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • [no specific locality data]
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • HAITI,
  • Georeference:
  • 18.4192310°, -72.784022° (Error radius: 185319m) By: Jeremy Kisala on 2020-09-04 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1700-01-01 / 2011-03-06
  • Verbatim Date:
  • [no verbatim date data]
  • Collecting Event Remarks:
  • End of date collected range set to latest date of data entry for a cataloged item in this collecting event
  • Collector:
  • William M. Mannlinked data icon

  • None

  • None

  • [Masked]
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