MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-2817

Asteronyx excavata Lütken & Mortensen, 1899

Lectotype of Asteronyx excavata  
  Syntype of Asteronyx excavata

Date Collected:

1891-04-18

Pacific Ocean: Pacific, Eastern Central: Mexico | Nayarit, Off Tres Marias Islands

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-2817 JSON-LD

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Current Identification
Asteronyx excavata Lütken & Mortensen, 1899 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Euryalida Asteronychidae
Determiner: Christian Lütken; Theodor Mortensen in 1899
Nature of ID: type ID

Lutken and Mortensen 1899, page 185, Syntype of Asteronyx excavata Lütken & Mortensen, 1899 plate XXI figs 2-6
Okanishi and Fujita 2014, page 193, Lectotype of Asteronyx excavata Lütken & Mortensen, 1899 Figure 5 A-F ; figure 6 A-E
Media type: text; Lutken and Mortensen 1899 Description: MCZ Memoirs Vol. XXIII no. 2;

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Shows Publication: Lutken and Mortensen 1899 Description: MCZ Memoirs Vol. XXIII no. 2

  • station number: 3424

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) good in collection 1 History

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-09-27

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  • Ocean:
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Pacific, Eastern Central
  • Country:
  • Mexico
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Nayarit, Off Tres Marias Islands
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Mexico, Nayarit, Off Tres Marias Islands
  • Depth:
  • 676 fms
  • Georeference:
  • 21.2500000°, -106.38333° (Error radius: Unknown) By: [no agent data] on 1891-04-18 (Source: unknown)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (21° 15′ 0″ N  106° 23′ 0″ W)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1891-04-18
  • Verbatim Date:
  • April 18, 1891
  • Collector:
  • USFC Steamer Albatross

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  • [Masked]
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