Invertebrate Zoology OPH-154: Bathypectinura heros

St. Croix: off Frederickstadt
Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central
January 4, 1878
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Identifications

Bathypectinura heros (Lyman, 1879)

Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiodermatidae Bathypectinura heros

Identified by World Register of Marine Species on 2015-03-03
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy

Pectinura tessellata Lyman, 1883

Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiodermatidae Pectinura tessellata

Identified by Theodore Lyman III in 1878
Nature of ID: type ID
Remarks: 3

Citations

Lyman 1883, Page 230, Holotype of Pectinura tessellata

Plate III figures 1-3

Locality and Collecting Event Details

Continent/Ocean:	Atlantic Ocean
Specific Locality:	St. Croix: off Frederickstadt
Verbatim Locality:	U.S. Virgin Islands, Off Frederickstadt, St. Croix
Collecting Source:	wild caught
Depth:	451 fms
Coordinates:	17° 43´ 0´´ N 64° 55´ 10´´ W (Datum: unknown) , Error: 0 m
	[no agent data]; 1878-01-04; Source: unknown
Collecting Date:	January 4, 1878

Collectors

USCSS Blake Expeditions

Identifiers

station number: 130

Part Details

Part Name	Condition	Disposition	#	Remarks
partial animal (dry)	poor (broken arms)	in collection	1

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