MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1338

Amphiura palmeri Lyman, 1882

Syntype of Amphiura palmeri

Date Collected:

[date unknown] prior to 1882-01-01

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: United States: Florida | Miami, Biscayne Bay

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-1338 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1338 Description: Original handwritten specimen labels; Aspect: labels

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Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1338 Description: Bottom of brittle star with mouth visible.; Aspect: ventral

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Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1338 Description: Top of brittle star with a view of the disc.; Aspect: dorsal

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Current Identification
Amphiura palmeri Lyman, 1882 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Amphiuridae
Determiner: Theodore Lyman IIIlinked data icon in 1872
Nature of ID: type ID
Previous Identification
Amphiura flexuosa Ljungman, 1867 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Amphiuridae
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: legacy
Remarks: enclosed note, not flexuosa Oct. '78

Lyman 1882, page 123, Syntype of Amphiura palmeri Lyman, 1882 also page 142 without full description
Media type: text; Lyman 1882 Description: REPORT on the Ophiuroidea dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876;

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Shows Publication: Lyman 1882 Description: REPORT on the Ophiuroidea dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876

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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 2022-10-14
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2022-10-14   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (dry) broken in collection 1 History (4)

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Alana Rivera 2023-03-07
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:
  • Miami, Biscayne Bay
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Biscayne Bay, Miami, Florida
  • Georeference:
  • 25.5658330°, -80.216389° (Error radius: 10000m) By: Penny Benson on 2014-02-28 (Source: Google Earth)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1700-01-01 / 1882-01-01
  • Verbatim Date:
  • [no verbatim date data]
  • Collector:
  • Edward Palmer

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