MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-2029

Ophiacantha curima Clark, 1915

Holotype of Ophiacantha curima

Date Collected:

1878-02-24

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: Cuba | Gulf of Mexico, NW of Havana

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-2029 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-2029 Aspect: dorsal

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Current Identification
Ophiacantha curima Clark, 1915 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiacanthidae
Determiner: Hubert Lyman Clarklinked data icon in 1915
Nature of ID: type ID

Clark 1915, page 197, Holotype of Ophiacantha curima Clark, 1915 Plate 3 fig 1,2
Media type: text; Clark 1915 Description: MCZ Memoirs Vol. XXV no. 4;

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Shows Publication: Clark 1915 Description: MCZ Memoirs Vol. XXV no. 4

  • station number: 41

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 2022-09-30
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2022-09-30   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (dry) broken - fair in collection 1 History (3)

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-09-27
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Penny Benson 2021-08-19
Remarks: Localities vetted

  • None

  • None

  • None

  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Western Central
  • Country:
  • Cuba
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Gulf of Mexico, NW of Havana
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, NW of Havana
  • Depth:
  • 860 fms
  • Georeference:
  • 23.7000000°, -83.216666° (Error radius: 115) By: [no agent data] on 1878-02-24 (Source: Lists of Dredging Stations in North American Water from 1867-1887 by Sanderson Smith)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (23° 42′ 0″ N  83° 13′ 0″ W)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1878-02-24
  • Verbatim Date:
  • February 24, 1878
  • Collecting Event Remarks:
  • date unpublished but included with one of the specimens collected
  • Collector:
  • USCSS Blake Expeditions

  • None

  • None

  • [Masked]
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