MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-3545

Ophiomyxa bengalensis Koehler, 1897

Syntype of Ophiomyxa bengalensis

Date Collected:

1800/1931

Indian Ocean: Indian Ocean, Eastern: India | Andaman and Nicobar Islands

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-3545 JSON-LD

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Current Identification
Ophiomyxa bengalensis Koehler, 1897 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiomyxidae
Determiner: René Koehler in 1897
Nature of ID: type ID

Koehler 1897, page 363, Syntype of Ophiomyxa bengalensis Koehler, 1897 Plate 9 figures 70, 71
Media type: text; Koehler 1897 Description: Les Ophiures de Mer Profonde;

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  • other number: REG. No. 5109

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 by=Nina Black  
whole animal (dry) good in collection 1 History

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Alana Rivera 2022-12-08
Remarks: imaged, locality vetted
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-09-27

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  • Ocean:
  • Indian Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Indian Ocean, Eastern
  • Country:
  • India
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • off Andaman Islands
  • Georeference:
  • 10.0000000°, 93.0000000° (Error radius: 504854m) By: Alana Rivera on 2022-12-08 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1800-01-01 / 1931-12-31
  • Verbatim Date:
  • [no verbatim date data]
  • Collector:
  • CRS Investigator

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  • [Masked]
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