MCZ Invertebrate Zoology HOL-290

Pentacta tuberculosa Quoy & Gaimard

Date Collected:

Shows Cataloged Item: MCZ:IZ:HOL-290 Pentacta tuberculosa Syntype Description

Current Identification

Pentacta tuberculosa Quoy & Gaimard

Animalia Echinodermata Holothuroidea Dendrochirotida Cucumariidae

Determiner: [no agent data]

Nature of ID: expert ID

Previous Identification

Cercodemas anceps Selenka, 1867

Animalia Echinodermata Holothuroidea Dendrochirotida Cucumariidae

Determiner: Emil Selenka in 1867

Nature of ID: type ID

Selenka 1867, page 343, Syntype of Cercodemas anceps Selenka, 1867 plate XIX figs 98-99

Shows Publication: Selenka 1867 Description: Beiträge Zur Anatomie Und Systematik der Holothurien

Part	Condition	Disposition	Count
partial animal: tissue (microscope slide)	fair	in collection	1	History
Remarks: Bodywall ossicles-returned by Dave Pawson March 2019
tissue (95% ethanol)	good	in collection	1	History (3)
Remarks: muscle; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2023-01-10
subsampled by = Nina Black determined date=2023-01-03 determined by=Nina Black
whole animal (70% ethanol)	good	in collection	2	History

Attribute	Value	Determination	On
associated grant	Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR)	By: Nina Black	2023-01-10
associated grant	Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn)	By: Adam J. Baldinger	2023-03-23

Specific Locality:
off Hong Kong
Verbatim Locality:
Hong Kong
Georeference:
22.1837260°, 114.066446° (Error radius: 57799m) By: Alana Rivera on 2025-03-11 (Source: GEOLocate)
Datum:
WGS84
Coordinates Entered As:
decimal degrees
Collecting Source:
wild caught
Began Date / Ended Date:
1861-03-01 / 1861-03-31
Verbatim Date:
March 1861
Collector:
[no agent data]