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Brittle star (Ophiacantha cuspidata)

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Description

Notes: Single specimen

Citations: [Challenger] Report Pt. 14, p. 191.

Accession number

I.76310

Holding institution

University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge

Date collected

3 April 1876

Area or Water body

Off Ascension Island, British Overseas Territory
Eastern Central Atlantic Ocean

Form

Fluid

FAO

34

Field measurements and observations

Depth (Fathoms): 420
Specific Gravity at water surface: 1.0232

Taxonomic groups

Ophiacantha cuspidata
Ophiacantha
Ophiacanthidae
Ophiurida
Ophiuroidea
Echinodermata
Animalia

Station

344

Gear

Dredge

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