MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-5009

Ophiactis brevis H.L. Clark, 1938

Holotype of Ophiactis brevis

Date Collected:

1929-07-01/1929-07-31

Pacific Ocean: Pacific, Western Central: Australia: Northern Territory | Port Darwin near Shell Islands.

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-5009 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-5009 Description: Labels for this specimen included in the specimen tray.; Aspect: labels

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Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-5009 Description: Top down view of single ophiuroid specimen with a scale bar.; Aspect: dorsal

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Media type: image; Invertebrate Zoology OPH-5009 Description: Bottom up view of single ophiuroid specimen with a scale bar.; Aspect: ventral

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Current Identification
Ophiactis brevis H.L. Clark, 1938 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiactidae
Determiner: Hubert Lyman Clarklinked data icon in 1938
Nature of ID: type ID

Clark 1938, page 264, Holotype of Ophiactis brevis H.L. Clark, 1938
Media type: text; Clark 1938 Description: MCZ Memoirs Vol. LV;

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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 2022-09-30
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (dry) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: photographed by Noe Salgado Ortiz September 2015

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-09-27
associated grant Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) By: Alana Rivera 2022-12-08

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  • Ocean:
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Pacific, Western Central
  • Country:
  • Australia
  • State/Province:
  • Northern Territory
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Port Darwin near Shell Islands.
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Australia, Shell Islands, Port Darwin
  • Georeference:
  • -12.494044°, 130.885503° (Error radius: 500m) By: Penny Benson on 2020-12-09 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1929-07-01 / 1929-07-31
  • Verbatim Date:
  • July 1929
  • Collector:
  • Carnegie Australian Harvard Expedition

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