Specimen Details

  • Taxon Name

    Plutonaster

  • Preferred Common name

    Seastar

  • Date Identified

    19/10/2017

  • Identified By

    Dr Christopher Mah - Smithsonian Institution

  • Number Of Specimens

    1

  • Stage Or Age

    Juvenile

  • Specimen Nature

    Nature: Whole, Form: wet, Fixative treatment: ethanol 95%, Medium: ethanol 95%

  • Expedition Name

    IN2017_V03 - Sampling the Abyss

  • Collected By

    O'Hara et. al IN2017 V03 abyss Marine Invertebrates Team

  • Collection Event Code

    IN2017 V03 128

  • Sampling Method

    Beam Trawl - CSIRO Four Metre

  • Date Visited From

    13/06/2017 9:05 PM

  • Date Visited To

    13/06/2017 10:17 PM

  • Depth To (m)

    1761

  • Depth From (m)

    1770

  • Category

    Natural Sciences

  • Scientific Group

    Invertebrate Zoology

  • Discipline

    Invertebrates

  • Collecting Areas

    Invertebrates

  • Type of Item

    Specimen

Taxonomy

Geospatial Information

  • Site Code

    IN2017 V03 128

  • Country

    Australia

  • State

    Queensland

  • Precise Location

    Coral Sea CMR

  • Latitude

    -23.6312

  • Longitude

    154.66

  • Geodetic Datum

    WGS84

  • Georeference Protocol

    data provided with specimen(s)

  • Georeference By

    Dr Tim D O'Hara - Museum Victoria