Invertebrate Zoology OPH-3831: Ophiothela danae

Torres Strait, Murray Island (Mer), western reef
Pacific Ocean: Pacific, Western Central: Australia: Queensland
October 13, 1913
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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 in 1915
Nature of ID: type ID

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
Country:	Australia
State/Province:	Queensland
Specific Locality:	Torres Strait, Murray Island (Mer), western reef
Verbatim Locality:	Murray Ids: Mer, west reef
Collecting Source:	wild caught
Depth:	18 fms
Coordinates:	-9.923066° 144.039006° (Datum: WGS84) , Error: 736 m
	Penny Benson; 2020-12-09; Source: GEOLocate
	Coordinate Remarks: Georeferenced off the coast of Murray Island, polygon represents the reef
Collecting Date:	October 13, 1913

Collectors

Hubert Lyman Clark

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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