Species Acaudina leucoprocta (H.L. Clark, 1938)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aphelodactyla leucoprocta Clark, H.L. 1938. Echinoderms from Australia. An account of collections made in 1929 and 1932. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 55: 1-596, figs 1-64, pls 1-28 [543, fig. 60].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 1679, near Broome, WA.
  Paratype(s) MCZ 1678; MCZ 1680.
• Aphelodactyla irania Heding, S.G. 1940. Echinoderms of the Iranian Gulf. Holothuroidea. Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran 2: 113-137 figs 1-12 [124, fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Holotype ?ZMUC, southwest of Henjam, Persian Gulf.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cherbonnier, G. 1952. Les Holothuries de Quoy et Gaimard. Mémoires de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 2 44: 1-50 figs 1-16 pls i-iii [252]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Dampier Archipelago, WA to Hillsborough Channel, Qld; east Indo-west Pacific Ocean. Depth range 0-31 m.

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 Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: N coast, NE coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

• West Pacific Ocean

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, deposit feeder, inshore, tropical.

 

General References

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 [445]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023		11-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)