MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1242

Ophiactis plana Lyman, 1869

Syntype of Ophiactis plana

Date Collected:

1868-01-16

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: United States: Florida | off Tortugas

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-1242 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1242 Description: Original handwritten specimen labels; Aspect: labels

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Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1242 Description: Bottom of brittle star with mouth visible.; Aspect: ventral

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Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1242 Description: Top of brittle star with a view of the disc.; Aspect: dorsal

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

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Shows Publication: de Pourtales and Lyman 1869 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. I no. 10

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Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (dry) ok 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) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: found dry in 1998 by ES

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Alana Rivera 2023-03-28
Remarks: Lot photographed
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-10-14

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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 Tortugas
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Florida: off Tortugas
  • Depth:
  • 13 fms
  • Georeference:
  • 24.6651510°, -82.855398° (Error radius: 5421m) By: Penny Benson on 2015-04-08 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1868-01-16
  • Verbatim Date:
  • January 16, 1868
  • Collectors:
  • Louis F. Pourtales; US Coast Survey, 1867-1871

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