Invertebrate Zoology OPH-786: Ophiura flagellata

Ventana Bay, offshore of Baja California
Pacific Ocean: Pacific, Eastern Central: Mexico: Baja California
20 April 1891
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Identifications

Ophiura flagellata (Lyman, 1878)

Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiuridae Ophiura flagellata

Identified by World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-09
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy

Gymnophiura coerulescens Lütken & Mortensen, 1899

Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Ophiuridae Gymnophiura coerulescens

Identified by Christian Lutken, Theodor Mortensen in 1899
Nature of ID: type ID

Citations

Lutken and Mortensen 1899, Page 114, Syntype of Gymnophiura coerulescens

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Media Details
MCZ Memoirs Vol. XXIII no. 2

Locality and Collecting Event Details

Continent/Ocean:	Pacific Ocean
Country:	Mexico
State/Province:	Baja California
Specific Locality:	Ventana Bay, offshore of Baja California
Verbatim Locality:	Ventana Bay, offshore of Bay, Baja California
Collecting Source:	wild caught
Depth:	995 fms
Coordinates:	23° 59´ 0´´ N 108° 40´ 0´´ W (Datum: unknown)
	[no agent data]; 1891-04-20; Source: Dredging and Hydrographic Records of the US Fisheries Steamer Albatross
Collecting Date:	20 April 1891

Collectors

USFC Steamer Albatross

Identifiers

station number: 3431

Part Details

Part Name	Condition	Disposition	#	Remarks
partial animal (dry)	fair, missing 2 arms	in collection	1

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