Species Myzostoma polycyclus Atkins, 1927

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• Myzostoma polycyclus Atkins, D. 1927. Report on the Myzostomidae collected by Mr. F.A. Potts in Torres Strait, together with a description of a species obtained by Professor J. Stanley Gardiner from the Maldives. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1927: 339-357 [340-344].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (Eeckhaut, I., Grygier, M.J. & Deheyn, D. 1998. Myzostomes from Papua New Guinea, with related Indo-West Pacific distribution records and description of five new species. Bulletin of Marine Science 62(3): 841–886, could not find the types), Murray Island, Torres Strait, Queensland.

  Type host:

   Comanthus annulatus Bell, 1882 [COMASTERIDAE] (= Comanthus parvicirrus (Muller, 1841))
• Myzostomum elegans Jägersten, G. 1940. Zur Kenntnis der Morphologie, Entwicklung und Taxonomie der Myzostomida. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis 11: 1-84 [104-107].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMUC, Jolo, Philippines.
• Myzostomum irregulare Graff, L. von 1883. Verzeichnis der von den U.S. Coast Survey steamers "Hassler" und "Blake" von 1867–1879 gesammelten Myzostomiden. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 11: 125-133 [130].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, southern Florida.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast
• Fiji
• Papua New Guinea

Nearctic Region

• United States of America
  • Florida

Oriental Region

• Maldives
• Philippines
  • Mindoro

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic, sublittoral.

 

Citations

Myzostoma polycyclus.
—Grygier, M.J. 1990. Distribution of Indo-Pacific Myzostoma and host specificity of comatulid-associated Myzostomida. Bulletin of Marine Science 47: 182–191 [184].
—Eeckhaut, I., Grygier, M.J. & Deheyn, D. 1998. Myzostomes from Papua New Guinea, with related Indo-West Pacific distribution records and description of five new species. Bulletin of Marine Science 62(3): 841–886 [873–875, figs 1, 2, 18, 27, 30].

Myzostomum elegans.
—Iwase, F., Nomura, K., Fukado, T., Omae, H. & Uchida, H. 1990. Okinawa kaichu seibutsu zukan. (Okinawa marine life illustrated encyclopedia). Lesser Animals. Tokyo : Shinsei Zukan Series, Marine Parks Center Vol. 11 1–272 pp. [in Japanese] 91.

Myzostomum irregulare.
—Chesunov, A.V., Britaev, T.A., Larionov, V.V., Khodkina, I.V. & Tsetlin, A.B. 1989. Notes on commensals of some crinoids of the coral reefs of the Maldive Islands Indian Ocean. Simbioz U Morskikh Zhivotnykh (Symbiosis of Marine Animals) 1989: 165–191 [172–173, fig. 1.]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-Sep-2022		16-Sep-2022	MOVED
17-Oct-2023	MYZOSTOMIDAE	30-Jul-2015	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		03-Nov-2010	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		06-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)