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  • Invertebrate Zoology OPH-1918 MCZ Invertebrate Zoology
  • Ophiotoma coriacea
  • whole animal (dry)
  •    Holotype of Ophiacantha bartletti
  • off Grenada
  • Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: Grenada
  • February 28, 1879
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Identifications
Ophiotoma coriacea Lyman, 1883
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiacanthidae Ophiotoma coriacea
Identified by World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-09
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Ophiacantha bartletti Lyman, 1883
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiacanthidae Ophiacantha bartletti
Identified by Theodore Lyman III in 1883
Nature of ID: type ID
Citations
Lyman 1883, Page 256, Holotype of Ophiacantha bartletti
Plate V figures 73-75
Locality and Collecting Event Details
Continent/Ocean: Atlantic Ocean
Country: Grenada
Specific Locality: off Grenada
Collecting Source: wild caught
Depth: 291 fms
Coordinates: 12° 3´ 30´´ N 61° 47´ 10´´ W (Datum: unknown)
[no agent data]; 1879-02-28; Source: List of dredging stations in North American waters from 1867-1887
Collecting Date: February 28, 1879
Collectors
USCSS Blake Expeditions
Identifiers
station number: 260
Part Details
Part Name Condition Disposition # Remarks
whole animal (dry) good in collection 1
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