Specimen Details

  • Taxon Name

    Bathybiaster loripes

  • Author and date of publication

    (Sladen, 1889)

  • Preferred Common name

    Seastar

  • Date Identified

    21/05/2016

  • Identified By

    Dr Christopher Mah - Smithsonian Institution

  • Number Of Specimens

    1

  • Specimen Nature

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

  • Expedition Name

    US Antarctic Marine Living Resources (US AMLR-2012)

  • Collected By

    Susanne J Lockhart, N Wilson

  • Collection Event Code

    US AMLR 2012 235 PS79 ANT-XXVIII/4 235

  • Sampling Method

    beam trawl

  • Date Visited From

    25/03/2012

  • Date Visited To

    25/03/2012

  • Depth To (m)

    316.1

  • Depth From (m)

    328.5

  • Category

    Natural Sciences

  • Scientific Group

    Invertebrate Zoology

  • Discipline

    Invertebrates

  • Collecting Areas

    Invertebrates

  • Type of Item

    Specimen

Taxonomy

Geospatial Information

  • Ocean

    Southern Ocean

  • Continent

    Antarctica

  • Country

    Antarctica

  • Precise Location

    South Shetland Islands

  • Latitude

    -61.2897

  • Longitude

    -56.2094

  • Geodetic Datum

    WGS84

  • Georeference Source

    Compiler

  • Georeference By

    Dr Tim D. O'Hara