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Description

Notes: Lot of specimens

Citations: [Challenger] Report Pt. 14, p. 80.

Accession number

I.77085

Holding institution

University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge

Date collected

13 March 1874

Area or Water body

South of Australia
Eastern Indian Ocean

Form

Fluid

FAO

57

Field measurements and observations

Depth (Fathoms): 2600
Specific Gravity at water bottom: 1.0278
Specific Gravity at water surface: 1.02627
Temperature at x fathoms: 51.8;48.5;47.9;47.7;47.5;47.2;44.9;41.6;38.5;37;36.8;36.6;36.4

Taxonomic groups

Ophiocten pallidum
Ophiocten
Ophiuridae
Ophiurida
Ophiuroidea
Echinodermata
Animalia

Station

160

Gear

Trawl

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