Invertebrate Zoology OPH-2122: Ophiolebes humilis

Southwest of Sand Key
Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: Gulf of Mexico: United States: Florida
February 17, 1869
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Identifications

Ophiolebes humilis (Lyman, 1869)

Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiacanthidae Ophiolebes humilis

Identified by World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-10
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy

Ophiactis humilis Lyman, 1879

Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiactidae Ophiactis humilis

Identified by Theodore Lyman III in 1869
Nature of ID: type ID

Citations

de Pourtales and Lyman 1869, Page 329, Paratype of Ophiactis humilis

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Media Details
MCZ Bulletin Vol. I no. 10

Locality and Collecting Event Details

Continent/Ocean:	Atlantic Ocean
Country:	United States
State/Province:	Florida
Specific Locality:	Southwest of Sand Key
Collecting Source:	wild caught
Depth:	125 fms
Coordinates:	24° 20´ 30´´ N 81° 58´ 30´´ W (Datum: unknown) , Error: 0 m
	[no agent data]; 1869-02-17; Source: Lists of Dredging Stations in North American Water from 1867-1887 by Sanderson Smith
Collecting Date:	February 17, 1869

Collectors

Steamer Bibb

Louis F. Pourtales

Part Details

Part Name	Condition	Disposition	#	Remarks
whole animal (dry)	broken	in collection	2

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