Species Amphicyclus mortenseni Heding & Panning, 1954

Museums

Regional Maps

• Amphicyclus mortenseni Heding, S.G. & Panning, A. 1954. Phyllophoridae. Eine Bearbeitung der polytentaculaten dendrochiroten Holothurien des Zoologischen Museums in Kopenhagen. Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis 13: 1-209 figs 1-102 [90, fig. 30].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMUC 22 specimens (depository uncertain), off TAS, 38º07´09˜S 149º10´33˜E.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Montague Is., NSW to D'Entrecasteaux Channel., Tas. Depth range 9-162 m.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Lower E coast, Tas. Coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, suspension feeder, temperate.

 

General References

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 (as Mensamaria thomsoni (Hutton, 1879), in part)

Hickman, V.V. 1962. Tasmanian sea-cucumbers (Holothuroidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 96: 49-72 figs 1-186 pls 1-2

 

History of changes

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15-Sep-2023		11-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
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