MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-5039

Ophiactis savignyi (Müller & Troschel, 1842)

Paratype of Ophiactis savignyi var. lutea

Date Collected:

1929-07-09

Pacific Ocean: Pacific, Western Central: Australia: Northern Territory | Quail Island: W of Darwin

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-5039 JSON-LD

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Current Identification
Ophiactis savignyi (Müller & Troschel, 1842) linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiactidae
Common Name(s): savigny's brittle star
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Remarks: revised taxonomy fide WoRMS
Previous Identification
Ophiactis savignyi var. lutea 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 262, Paratype of Ophiactis savignyi var. lutea H.L. Clark, 1938
Media type: text; Clark 1938 Description: MCZ Memoirs Vol. LV;

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Part Condition Disposition Count
whole animal (dry) good in collection 8 History (3)
Remarks: photographed by Noe Salgado Ortiz September 2015

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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:
  • Quail Island: W of Darwin
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Quail Island: W of Darwin
  • Georeference:
  • -12.520400°, 130.433300° (Error radius: 3554m) By: Penny Benson on 2014-09-17 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1929-07-09
  • Verbatim Date:
  • July 9, 1929
  • Collector:
  • Carnegie Australian Harvard Expedition

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