Invertebrate Zoology OPH-2900: Astroboa clavata

[no specific locality data]
Indian Ocean: Indian Ocean, Western: Tanzania: Zanzibar
[no verbatim date data] (1700-01-01 - 1862-01-01)
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Identifications

Astroboa clavata (Lyman, 1861)

Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Euryalida Gorgonocephalidae Astroboa clavata

Identified by World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-09
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy

Astrophyton clavatum Lyman, 1861

Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Euryalida Gorgonocephalidae Astrophyton clavatum

Identified by Theodore Lyman III in 1861
Nature of ID: type ID

Citations

Lyman 1861, Page 85, Holotype of Astrophyton clavatum

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Media Details
Descriptions of New Ophiuridae

Locality and Collecting Event Details

Continent/Ocean:	Indian Ocean
Country:	Tanzania
State/Province:	Zanzibar
Specific Locality:	[no specific locality data]
Verbatim Locality:	Zanzibar
Collecting Source:	wild caught
Coordinates:	-6.123824° 39.337517° (Datum: WGS84) , Error: 46495 m
	Meaghan H. Sorce; 2020-04-21; Source: GEOLocate
Collecting Date:	[no verbatim date data] (1700-01-01 - 1862-01-01)

Collectors

A. N. Cheney

Part Details

Part Name	Condition	Disposition	#	Remarks
whole animal (dry)	broken	in collection	1

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