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MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-123

Ophiarachnella angulata (Lyman, 1883)

Holotype of Pectinura angulata

Date Collected:

1879-01-05

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: Virgin Islands of the United States: Saint Croix | off Frederickstadt

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-123 JSON-LD

Media type: image, MCZ:IZ:OPH-123 Identified as Ophiarachnella angulata type status Holotype of Pectinura angulata. . Aspect: labels

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MCZ:IZ:OPH-123 Ophiarachnella angulata. Holotype. Aspect: labels

Media type: image, MCZ:IZ:OPH-123 Identified as Ophiarachnella angulata type status Holotype of Pectinura angulata. . Aspect: dorsal

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MCZ:IZ:OPH-123 Ophiarachnella angulata. Holotype. Aspect: dorsal

Media type: image, MCZ:IZ:OPH-123 Identified as Ophiarachnella angulata type status Holotype of Pectinura angulata. . Aspect: ventral

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MCZ:IZ:OPH-123 Ophiarachnella angulata. Holotype. Aspect: ventral

Current Identification
Ophiarachnella angulata (Lyman, 1883) linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiodermatidae
Determiner: [no agent data] on 2015-03-03
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Remarks: revised taxonomy fide WoRMS
Previous Identification
Pectinura angulata Lyman, 1883 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiodermatidae
Determiner: Theodore Lyman III in 1905
Nature of ID: type ID

Lyman 1883, page 232, Holotype of Pectinura angulata Lyman, 1883 Plate III figures 7-9

  • station number: 134

Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (dry) good in collection 1 History (3)
Remarks: partial arm; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2022-09-30
subsampled by=Nina Black   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (dry) broken in collection 1 History

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Alana Rivera 2022-11-17
Remarks: imaged
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-09-27

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  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Western Central
  • Country:
  • Virgin Islands of the United States
  • Island:
  • Saint Croix
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • off Frederickstadt
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Off St. Cruz, Frederickstadt
  • Depth:
  • 248 fms
  • Georeference:
  • 17.6208333, -64.805555 (Error radius: Not Specified) By: [no agent data] on 1879-01-05 (Source: Lists of Dredging Stations in North American Water from 1867-1887 by Sanderson Smith)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (17° 37′ 15″ N  64° 48′ 20″ W)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1879-01-05
  • Verbatim Date:
  • January 5, 1879
  • Collector:
  • USCSS Blake Expeditions

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  • [Masked]
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