Invertebrate Zoology OPH-2340: Ophiothrix galapagensis

Galapagos Islands, East of San Cristobal Island
Pacific Ocean: Pacific, Southeast: Ecuador: Galápagos: Galapagos Archipelago
28 March 1891
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Identifications

Ophiothrix galapagensis Lütken & Mortensen, 1899

Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiotrichidae Ophiothrix galapagensis

Identified by Christian Lutken, Theodor Mortensen in 1899
Nature of ID: type ID

Citations

Lutken and Mortensen 1899, Page 181, Syntype of Ophiothrix galapagensis

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Media Details
MCZ Memoirs Vol. XXIII no. 2

Locality and Collecting Event Details

Continent/Ocean:	Pacific Ocean
Country:	Ecuador
State/Province:	Galápagos
Island Group:	Galapagos Archipelago
Specific Locality:	Galapagos Islands, East of San Cristobal Island
Verbatim Locality:	East of San Cristobal Island, Galapagos
General Habitat:	pebbles and coral and shells
Collecting Method:	Tangles
Collecting Source:	wild caught
Depth:	53 fms
Coordinates:	0° 57´ S 89° 38´ W (Datum: unknown)
	[no agent data]; 1891-03-28; Source: unknown
Collecting Date:	28 March 1891

Collectors

USFC Steamer Albatross

Identifiers

station number: 3405

Part Details

Part Name	Condition	Disposition	#	Remarks
fragment (dry)	good	deaccessioned - used up	1	SEM sampled by Quetzalli Hernandez July 2014
whole animal (dry)	good	in collection	1	Photographed by Quetzalli Hernandez July 2014

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