MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-2826

Ophiocreas abyssicola Lyman, 1879

Syntype of Ophiocreas abyssicola

Date Collected:

1875-06-23

Pacific Ocean: Pacific, Northwest: High Seas | High Seas

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-2826 JSON-LD

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Current Identification
Ophiocreas abyssicola Lyman, 1879 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Euryalida Euryalidae
Determiner: Theodore Lyman IIIlinked data icon in 1879
Nature of ID: type ID

Lyman 1879, page 64, Syntype of Ophiocreas abyssicola Lyman, 1879 Plate XVII. Figs. 470-473
Okanishi and Fujita 2014, page 189, Voucher of Ophiocreas abyssicola Lyman, 1879 Figure 2A, H, I (p. 190) ; 3B,C,D,E (p. 191)
Media type: text; Lyman 1879 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. VI no. 2;

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  • collector number: 2301
  • station number: 241

Part Condition Disposition Count
partial animal (dry) broken in collection 2 History
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 by=Nina Black  

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, Northwest
  • Country:
  • High Seas
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • High Seas
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • [coordinate data only]
  • Depth:
  • 2300 fms
  • Georeference:
  • 35.6833333°, 157.700000° (Error radius: Not Specified) By: [no agent data] on 1875-06-23 (Source: 'Challenger' Expedition List of Observing Stations - C. Wyville Thomson 1877)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • degrees dec. minutes (35° 41.000000′ N  157° 42.00000000′ E)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1875-06-23
  • Verbatim Date:
  • June 23, 1875
  • Collector:
  • HMS Challenger Expedition 1873-1876

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  • [Masked]
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