Invertebrate Zoology OPH-2099: Ophiothamnus remotus

Agulhas Bank, off Cape Colony
Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Southeast: South Africa
December 18, 1873
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Identifications

Ophiothamnus remotus Lyman, 1878

Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiacanthidae Ophiothamnus remotus

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

Citations

Agassiz et al. 1878, Page 149, Syntype of Ophiothamnus remotus

Plate VIII, figs 201-203

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Media Details
U S Coast Survey steamer Blake...II] Corals and Crinoids

Locality and Collecting Event Details

Continent/Ocean:	Atlantic Ocean
Country:	South Africa
Specific Locality:	Agulhas Bank, off Cape Colony
Verbatim Locality:	[coordinate data only]
Collecting Source:	wild caught
Depth:	150 fms
Coordinates:	35° 4´ 0´´ S 18° 37´ 0´´ E (Datum: unknown) , Error: 0 m
	[no agent data]; 1873-12-18; Source: 'Challenger' Expedition List of Observing Stations - C. Wyville Thomson 1877
Collecting Date:	December 18, 1873

Collectors

HMS Challenger Expedition 1873-1876

Included in these Collections

Identifiers

station number: 142

Part Details

Part Name	Condition	Disposition	#	Remarks
whole animal (dry)	good	in collection	1

Attributes

associated grant: Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn)

Penny Benson, 2021-08-12

Remark: Localities vetted

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