Invertebrate Zoology OPH-3831: Ophiothela danae

Identifications

Ophiothela danae Verrill, 1869

Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiotrichidae Ophiothela danae

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

Ophiothela hadra H.L. Clark, 1915

Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiotrichidae Ophiothela hadra

Identified by Hubert Lyman Clark
Nature of ID: type ID
Remarks: Identification Made Date: 1915

Citations

Clark 1915, Page 284, Holotype of Ophiothela hadra

Plate 14 fig 2

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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, Murray Island (Mer), western reef
Verbatim Locality:	Murray Ids: Mer, west reef
Collecting Source:	wild caught
Depth:	18 fms
Coordinates:	-9.916598° 144.052267° (Datum: WGS84) , Error: 2720 m
	Penny Benson; 2014-09-29; Source: GEOLocate
	Coordinate Remarks: Georeferenced on land to include waters off the coasts of Murray Island
Collecting Date:	October 13, 1913

Collectors

Hubert Lyman Clark

Carnegie Expedition to the Torres Strait

Part Details

Part Name	Condition	Disposition	#	Remarks
partial animal (dry)	poor	in collection	1

Remarks: "Original of Mr. Grosse's figure 69" per HLC

Microhabitat: on a Sponge

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