MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-400

Ophiurochaeta mixta (Lyman, 1878)

Holotype of Ophiochaeta mixta

Date Collected:

1877-12-01/1878-03-31

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: Cuba | south of Havana

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Current Identification
Ophiurochaeta mixta (Lyman, 1878) linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiodermatidae
Determiner: [no agent data] on 2015-02-10
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Remarks: revised taxonomy fide WoRMS
Previous Identification
Ophiochaeta mixta Lyman, 1878 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiodermatidae
Determiner: Theodore Lyman IIIlinked data icon in 1878
Nature of ID: type ID

Agassiz et al. 1878, page 222, Holotype of Ophiochaeta mixta Lyman, 1878 Plate II, figs 40-42
Media type: text; Agassiz et al. 1878 Description: U S Coast Survey steamer Blake...II] Corals and Crinoids;

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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 2022-10-11
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2022-10-11   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (dry) poor (broken arms) in collection 1 History

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Penny Benson 2021-08-19
Remarks: Localities vetted
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-10-11

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  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Western Central
  • Country:
  • Cuba
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • south of Havana
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • [coordinate data only]
  • Depth:
  • 242 fms
  • Georeference:
  • 22.1583333°, -82.358333° (Error radius: Not Specified) By: [no agent data] on 1878-01-01 (Source: Lists of Dredging Stations in North American Water from 1867-1887 by Sanderson Smith)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (22° 9′ 30″ N  82° 21′ 30″ W)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1877-12-01 / 1878-03-31
  • Verbatim Date:
  • December 1877 - March 1878
  • Collectors:
  • Charles D. Sigsbee; USCSS Blake Expeditions

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  • [Masked]
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