MCZ Invertebrate Zoology HOL-940

Pseudocolochirus violaceus (Théel, 1886)

Date Collected:

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Current Identification

Pseudocolochirus violaceus (Théel, 1886)

Animalia Echinodermata Holothuroidea Dendrochirotida Cucumariidae

Determiner: [no agent data] on 2012-07-24

Nature of ID: revised taxonomy

Remarks: WoRMs synonym; revised taxonomy fide WoRMS

Previous Identification

Colochirus axiologus Hubert Lyman Clark, 1914

Animalia Echinodermata Holothuroidea Dendrochirotida Cucumariidae

in 1914

Nature of ID: type ID

Clark 1914, page 171, Syntype of Colochirus axiologus Hubert Lyman Clark, 1914 plate XXV

Part	Condition	Disposition	Count
tissue (dry)	good	in collection	1	History
Remarks: muscle; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2023-02-17
subsampled by = Nina Black determined date=2023-02-03 determined by=Nina Black
whole animal (dry)	poor	in collection	1	History

Attribute	Value	Determination	On
associated grant	Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR)	By: Nina Black	2023-02-17
associated grant	Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn)	By: Adam J. Baldinger	2023-03-23

Specific Locality:
Port Hedland
Verbatim Locality:
N coast of W. Australia, Port Hedland
Georeference:
-20.300000°, 118.583000° (Error radius: 7306m) By: Alana Rivera on 2025-03-28 (Source: GEOLocate)
Datum:
WGS84
Coordinates Entered As:
decimal degrees
Collecting Source:
wild caught
Began Date / Ended Date:
1800-01-01 / 1914-12-31
Verbatim Date:
[no verbatim date data]
Collector:
[no agent data]