MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-437

Ophiomusium archaster Lyman, 1878

Syntype of Ophiomusium archaster

Date Collected:

1876-02-28

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Southwest: Uruguay | Uruguay

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-437 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-437 Aspect: dorsal

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Current Identification
Ophiomusium archaster Lyman, 1878
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiolepididae
Determiner: Theodore Lyman IIIlinked data icon in 1878
Nature of ID: type ID

Lyman 1878, page 112, Syntype of Ophiomusium archaster Lyman, 1878 plate II figs 28, 29, 32
Media type: text; Lyman 1878 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. V no. 7;

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Shows Publication: Lyman 1878 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. V no. 7

  • station number: 323

Part Condition Disposition Count
partial animal (dry) fair arm missing in collection 1 History
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  

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Alana Rivera 2022-12-06
Remarks: photographed
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-09-27

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  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Southwest
  • Country:
  • Uruguay
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Uruguay
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • [coordinate data only]
  • Depth:
  • 1900 fms
  • Georeference:
  • -35.650000°, -50.783333° (Error radius: Not Specified) By: [no agent data] on 1876-02-28 (Source: 'Challenger' Expedition List of Observing Stations - C. Wyville Thomson 1877)
  • Datum:
  • unknown
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • deg. min. sec. (35° 39′ 0″ S  50° 47′ 0″ W)
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1876-02-28
  • Verbatim Date:
  • February 28, 1876
  • Collector:
  • HMS Challenger Expedition 1873-1876

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  • [Masked]
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