MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1339

Amphiura palmeri Lyman, 1882

Syntype of Amphiura palmeri

Date Collected:

1871-12-29/1871-12-30

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: Barbados | off Sandy Bay

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-1339 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1339 Description: Original handwritten specimen labels; Aspect: labels

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Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1339 Description: Bottom of brittle star with mouth visible.; Aspect: ventral

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Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1339 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 1882
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

  • dredging number: 217P-220P

Part Condition Disposition Count
partial animal (dry) disk and part of one arm in collection 1 History (3)

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Alana Rivera 2023-03-07
Remarks: Lot photographed

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  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Western Central
  • Country:
  • Barbados
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • off Sandy Bay
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • off Sandy Bay, Barbados
  • Depth:
  • 100 fms
  • Locality Remarks:
  • Coordinates based on JH Blake's travel journal.
  • Georeference:
  • 13.0500000°, -59.583333° (Error radius: 2km) By: Penny Benson on 2013-08-14 (Source: Georeferenced based on locality of Sandy Bay, Barbados)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (13° 3′ 0″ N  59° 35′ 0″ W)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1871-12-29 / 1871-12-30
  • Verbatim Date:
  • December 29-30, 1871
  • Collector:
  • Hassler Expedition

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