Invertebrate Zoology OPH-5041: Ophiactis macrolepidota

Australia, Queensland, Port Curtis
Pacific Ocean: Pacific, Western Central
[no verbatim date data] (1700-01-01 - 1937-12-31)
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Identifications

Ophiactis macrolepidota Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1887

Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiactidae Ophiactis macrolepidota

Identified by World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-10
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy

Ophiactis acosmeta H.L. Clark, 1938

Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiactidae Ophiactis acosmeta

Identified by Hubert Lyman Clark in 1938
Nature of ID: type ID

Citations

Clark 1938, Page 262, Paratype of Ophiactis acosmeta

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Media Details
MCZ Memoirs Vol. LV

Locality and Collecting Event Details

Continent/Ocean:	Pacific Ocean
Specific Locality:	Australia, Queensland, Port Curtis
Verbatim Locality:	Port Curtis, Queensland
Collecting Source:	wild caught
Coordinates:	-17.2° 146.05° (Datum: WGS84) , Error: 301 m
	Penny Benson; 2014-05-28; Source: GEOLocate
Collecting Date:	[no verbatim date data] (1700-01-01 - 1937-12-31)

Collectors

[no agent data]

Part Details

Part Name	Condition	Disposition	#	Remarks
whole animal (dry)	fair	in collection	2

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