Invertebrate Zoology ECH-2883: Genocidaris maculata

Off Conch Reef
Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: United States: Florida
May 11, 1869
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Identifications

Genocidaris maculata A. Agassiz, 1869

Animalia Echinodermata Echinoidea Camarodonta Trigonocidaridae Genocidaris maculata

Identified by Alexander Agassiz in 1869
Nature of ID: type ID

Citations

de Pourtales and Agassiz 1869, Page 262, Syntype of Genocidaris maculata

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Media Details
MCZ Bulletin Vol. I no. 9

Locality and Collecting Event Details

Continent/Ocean:	Atlantic Ocean
Country:	United States
State/Province:	Florida
Specific Locality:	Off Conch Reef
Verbatim Locality:	South of Florida, off Conch Reef
Collecting Source:	wild caught
Depth:	9 to 77 fms
Coordinates:	24° 52´ 20´´ N 80° 22´ 20´´ W (Datum: unknown)
	[no agent data]; 1869-05-11; Source: Lists of Dredging Stations in North American Water from 1867-1887 by Sanderson Smith
Collecting Date:	May 11, 1869

Collectors

US Coast Survey, 1867-1871

Louis F. Pourtales

Identifiers

other number: 87, 90, 92

Part Details

Part Name	Condition	Disposition	#	Remarks
whole animal (70% ethanol)	good and test only	in collection	7

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