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MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-590

Ophiopsammus assimilis (Bell, 1888)

Paratype of Pectinura dyscrita

Date Collected:

1898-02-01/1898-03-31

Pacific Ocean: Pacific, Southwest: Australia: New South Wales | off Wallongong, S by W 7-8 miles from shore

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-590 JSON-LD

Current Identification
Ophiopsammus assimilis (Bell, 1888) linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiodermatidae
Determiner: [no agent data] on 2015-03-03
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Remarks: revised taxonomy fide WoRMS
Previous Identification
Pectinura dyscrita H.L. Clark, 1909 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiodermatidae
Determiner: Hubert Lyman Clark in 1909
Nature of ID: type ID

  • station number: 48

Part Condition Disposition Count
whole animal (dry) broken in collection 1 History (3)

  • None

  • None

  • None

  • None

  • Ocean:
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Pacific, Southwest
  • Country:
  • Australia
  • State/Province:
  • New South Wales
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • off Wallongong, S by W 7-8 miles from shore
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • New South Wales: off Wallongong, S by W 7-8 miles from shore
  • Depth:
  • 55 - 56 fms
  • Georeference:
  • -34.519651°, 151.125366° (Error radius: 24182m) By: Penny Benson on 2014-05-28 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1898-02-01 / 1898-03-31
  • Verbatim Date:
  • March 18, 1898
  • Collector:
  • HMCS Thetis

  • None

  • None

  • [Masked]

  • None
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