Invertebrate Zoology OPH-741: Amphiophiura metabula

Gulf of Mexico, South of the Tortugas
Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central
February 24, 1878
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Identifications

Amphiophiura metabula H.L. Clark, 1915

Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiuridae Amphiophiura metabula

Identified by Hubert Lyman Clark in 1915
Nature of ID: type ID

Citations

Clark 1915, Page 311, Paratype of Amphiophiura metabula

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Media Details
MCZ Memoirs Vol. XXV no. 4

Locality and Collecting Event Details

Continent/Ocean:	Atlantic Ocean
Specific Locality:	Gulf of Mexico, South of the Tortugas
Collecting Source:	wild caught
Depth:	860 fms
Coordinates:	23° 42´ N 83° 13´ W (Datum: unknown) , Error: 115 km
	[no agent data]; 1878-02-24; Source: unknown
	Coordinate Remarks: Lat. seconds and Long. seconds blank in Original Data. Set to 30, Maximum Error set to 115 km. in MCZbase
Collecting Date:	February 24, 1878
Collecting Event Remarks:	date unpublished but included with one of the specimens collected

Collectors

USCSS Blake Expeditions

Identifiers

station number: 41

Part Details

Part Name	Condition	Disposition	#	Remarks
partial animal (dry)	poor (missing arms)	in collection	1

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