MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1184

Ophiactis plana Lyman, 1869

Holotype of Ophiactis plana

Date Collected:

1869-03-31

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: United States: Florida | Off Carysfort Reef

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-1184 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1184 Description: Original handwritten specimen labels; Aspect: labels1

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Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1184 Description: Bottom of brittle star with mouth visible.; Aspect: ventral

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Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1184 Description: Top of brittle star with a view of the disc.; Aspect: dorsal

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Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1184 Description: Original handwritten specimen labels under UV light to show more text.; Aspect: labels2

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Current Identification
Ophiactis plana Lyman, 1869 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiactidae
Determiner: Theodore Lyman IIIlinked data icon
Nature of ID: type ID
Remarks: Reviewed by Gordon Hendler May 2013; Identification Made Date: 1869

de Pourtales and Lyman 1869, page 330, Holotype of Ophiactis plana Lyman, 1869
Media type: text; de Pourtales and Lyman 1869 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. I no. 10;

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Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (dry) poor; specimen broken in many pieces in collection 1 History (3)
Remarks: partial arm; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2022-10-14
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2022-10-14   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (dry) broken in collection 1 History (3)
Remarks: photographed by Noe Salgado Ortiz September 2015

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-10-14
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Alana Rivera 2023-03-27
Remarks: Lot photographed

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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:
  • Off Carysfort Reef
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Off Carysfort Reef
  • Depth:
  • 117 fms
  • Georeference:
  • 25.1416666°, -80.100000° (Error radius: Not Specified) By: [no agent data] on 1869-03-31 (Source: Lists of Dredging Stations in North American Water from 1867-1887 by Sanderson Smith)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (25° 8′ 30″ N  80° 6′ 0″ W)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1869-03-31
  • Verbatim Date:
  • March 31, 1869
  • Collectors:
  • Steamer Bibb; Louis F. Pourtales

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