MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-2707

Sigsbeia murrhina Lyman, 1878

Holotype of Sigsbeia murrhina

Date Collected:

1877-01-01/1878-12-31

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: Cuba: Havana | off Havana

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Current Identification
Sigsbeia murrhina Lyman, 1878 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Hemieuryalidae
Determiner: Theodore Lyman IIIlinked data icon in 1878
Nature of ID: type ID

Agassiz et al. 1878, page 234, Holotype of Sigsbeia murrhina Lyman, 1878 Plate III, figs 55-58
Media type: text; Agassiz et al. 1878 Description: U S Coast Survey steamer Blake...II] Corals and Crinoids;

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Part Condition Disposition Count
partial animal (dry) fair in collection 1 History
partial animal: tissue (dry) good being processed <1 History
Remarks: fragment in gelatin capsule to be studied by Anne Isabelley Gondim de Farias
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 2022-10-14
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2022-10-11   determined by=Nina Black  

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-10-14
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Penny Benson 2021-08-19
Remarks: Localities vetted

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  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Western Central
  • Country:
  • Cuba
  • State/Province:
  • Havana
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • off Havana
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Off Havana
  • Depth:
  • 175 fms
  • Georeference:
  • 23.1500000°, -82.358333° (Error radius: Not Specified) By: Penny Benson on 2015-04-08 (Source: Lists of Dredging Stations in North American Water from 1867-1887 by Sanderson Smith)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (23° 9′ 0″ N  82° 21′ 30″ W)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1877-01-01 / 1878-12-31
  • Verbatim Date:
  • 1877-1878
  • Collectors:
  • USCSS Blake Expeditions; Charles D. Sigsbee

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