Invertebrate Zoology OPH-3744: Amphiura (Fellaria) octacantha

Australia, Queensland; Torres Strait, Friday Harbor (Gialug Island)
Pacific Ocean: Pacific, Western Central
September 13, 1913
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Identifications

Amphiura (Fellaria) octacantha (H.L. Clark, 1915)

Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Amphiuridae Amphiura (Fellaria) octacantha

Identified by World Register of Marine Species on 2015-03-02
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy

Ophionephthys octacantha H L Clark, 1915

Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Amphiuridae Ophionephthys octacantha

Identified by Hubert Lyman Clark
Nature of ID: expert ID

Citations

Clark 1915, Page 239, Holotype of Ophionephthys octacantha

Plate 9 figs 9, 10

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Media Details
MCZ Memoirs Vol. XXV no. 4

Locality and Collecting Event Details

Continent/Ocean:	Pacific Ocean
Specific Locality:	Australia, Queensland; Torres Strait, Friday Harbor (Gialug Island)
Verbatim Locality:	Torres Strait, Friday Harbor (Friday Island)
Collecting Source:	wild caught
Coordinates:	-10.592865° 142.16461° (Datum: WGS84) , Error: 1973 m
	Penny Benson; 2014-09-29; Source: GEOLocate and Google Earth
	Coordinate Remarks: Georeferenced on land to include waters off the coasts of Friday Island
Collecting Date:	September 13, 1913

Collectors

Hubert Lyman Clark

Carnegie Expedition to the Torres Strait

Part Details

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

Remarks: The specimen was already broken when the picture in the original desription was taken

Microhabitat: on sandy flat, under a stone

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