Species Amphioplus (Lymanella) depressus (Ljungman, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Amphipholis depressa Ljungman, A.V. 1867. Ophiuroidea viventia huc usque cognita enumerat. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 23(9): 303-336 [312].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM Type-1430 1 specimen, 'deep water between Batavia and Singapore', Indo-Malay Archipelago.
• Amphipholis hastata Ljungman, A.V. 1867. Ophiuroidea viventia huc usque cognita enumerat. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 23(9): 303-336 [313].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM Type-1431 3 syntypes, off Mozambique (as 'off Mossambique').
• Ophiophragmus affinis Duncan, P.M. 1887. On the Ophiuridae of the Mergui Archipelago collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr John Anderson, F.R.S., Superintendent at the Museum. Journal of the Linnean Society Zool. 21: 85-106 pls 8-9, 11(28-40) [89, pl. 8, figs 4-6].
• Amphiura relicta Koehler, R. 1898. Échinodermes, receuillis par l'Investigator dans l'Océan Indien. II. Les ophiures littorales. Bulletin Scientique de la France et de la Belgique 31: 55-124, pls 2-5 [69-71, pl. 4(37-38)].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ?MNHP*, Andaman Ils, coast of Ganjam, Bay of Bengal.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Clark, H.L. 1915. Catalogue of recent ophiurans: based on the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 25(4): 165-376, pls 1-20 [254] (as Amphioplus depressus)
• Clark, A.M. & Rowe, F.W.E. 1971. Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. London : Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) 238 pp. 100 figs 31 pls. [80-81, fig. 22d, 24a] (as Amphioplus (Lymanella) hastatus)
• O'Hara 2012. Australian Faunal Directory, Ophiuroidea, http://biodiversity.org.au/afd

 

Generic Combinations

• Amphioplus (Lymanella) depressus (Ljungman, 1867).
• Amphioplus (Lymanella) hastatus (Ljungman, 1867).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indian, Indo-Pacific, South Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, inshore, marine.

 

General References

Baker, A.N. 1979. Some Ophiuroidea from the Tasman Sea and adjacent waters. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 6: 21-51, figs 1-8 [46] (as Amphioplus (Lymanella) depressa)

Cherbonnier, G. & Guille, A. 1978. Faune de Madagascar. 48. Echinodermes: Ophiurides. Paris : Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 272 pp, 77 figs, 17 pls. [83-86, fig. 36(A), 37(B-D)] (as Amphioplus (Lymanella) hastatus)

Clark, A.M. 1970. Notes on the family Amphiuridae (Ophiuroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 19(1): 1-81, figs 1-11 [54, fig. 9u] (as Amphioplus (Lymanella) depressa)

Clark, H.L. 1921. The echinoderm fauna of Torres Strait. Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 10: 1-224, 38 pls [107] (as Amphioplus relictus)

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 [249] (as Amphioplus depressus)

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 [205] (as Amphioplus depressus)

Gibbs, P.E., Clark, A.M. & Clark, C.M. 1976. Echinoderms from the northern region of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 30(4): 101-144 [117-118] (as Amphioplus (Lymanella) depressus)

Irimura, S. & Tachikawa, H. 2003. Ophiuroids from the Ogasawara Islands. Ogasawara Research 28: 1-26 [9] (as Amphioplus (Lymanella) depressa)

Koehler, R. 1900. Illustrations of the shallow-water Ophiuroidea collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey ship Investigator. Calcutta : Indian Museum 4 pp, pls 15-21. [pl. 16(15-16)] (as Amphiura relicta)

Koehler, R. 1905. Ophiures littorales. Siboga Expéditie Monographie 45(b): 1-142, pls 1-18 [41] (as Amphiura relicta)

Koehler, R. 1922. Contributions to the biology of the Philippine Archipelago and adjacent regions. Ophiurans of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 100(5): 1-486, pls 1-103 [179-183, pl. 70(9), 71(4-8)] (as Amphioplus relictus; AMC & Rowe (1971) consider that figs 71(7-8) are A. (L.) japonicus)

Koehler, R. 1930. Ophiures recueillies par le Docteur Th. Mortensen dans les Mers d'Australie et dans l'Archipel Malais. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 89: 1-295 pls 1-22 [105-106] (as Amphioplus depressus)

Liao, Y. & Clark, A.M. 1995. The echinoderms of southern China. Beijing : Science Press 614 pp., 23 pls. [190, fig. 88] (as Amphioplus (Lymanella) depressus)

Lyman, T. 1879. Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae of the exploring voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, under Prof. Sir Wyville Thomson, F.R.S. Part 2. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 6(2): 17-83, pls 11-19 [32] (as Amphiura depressa ?)

Lyman, T. 1882. Ophiuroidea. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 5: 1-385 pls 1-48 [137] (as Amphiura depressa)

Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33 Echinodermata. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia 510 pp. [345] (as Amphioplus (Lymanella) hastatus)

Sloan, N.A., Clark, A.M. & Taylor, J.D. 1979. The echinoderms of Aldabra and their habitats. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 37(2): 81-128 figs 1-22 [101] (as Amphioplus (Lymanella) hastatus)

 

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