Invertebrate Zoology OPH-320: Ophiozonella contigua

Ecuador: east of the Galapagos Islands
Pacific Ocean: Pacific, Eastern Central
March 27, 1891
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Identifications

Ophiozonella contigua (Lütken & Mortensen, 1899)

Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiolepididae Ophiozonella contigua

Identified by World Register of Marine Species
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy

Ophiozona contigua Lütken & Mortensen, 1899

Animalia Echinodermata Asterozoa Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiurina Ophiolepididae Ophiozona contigua

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

Citations

Lutken and Mortensen 1899, Page 101, Syntype of Ophiozona contigua

plate VI figs 10-12

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Media Details
MCZ Memoirs Vol. XXIII no. 2

Locality and Collecting Event Details

Continent/Ocean:	Pacific Ocean
Specific Locality:	Ecuador: east of the Galapagos Islands
Collecting Source:	wild caught
Depth:	1322 fms
Coordinates:	0° 36´ 0´´ S 86° 46´ 0´´ W (Datum: unknown)
	Unknown; 1891-03-27; Source: unknown
Collecting Date:	March 27, 1891

Collectors

USFC Steamer Albatross

Identifiers

station number: 3400

Part Details

Part Name	Condition	Disposition	#	Remarks
fragment (SEM stub)	good	in collection	1	no. 45
whole animal (dry)	good	in collection	1
fragment (dry) subsample	good	in collection	1	returned

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