Species Amphiura latisquama Mortensen, 1924
Compiler and date details
2012 - Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
- Amphiura eugeniae latisquama Mortensen, T. 1924. Echinoderms of New Zealand and the Auckland-Campbell Islands. II. Ophiuroidea. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 77: 91-177 figs 1-36 pls 3-4 [142-144, fig. 21] [as Amphiura eugeniae var. latisquama Mortensen, 1924].
Type data:
Holotype ZMUC, New Zealand, locality unknown but probably Auckland. - Amphioplus longirima Fell, H.B. 1952. Echinoderms from Southern New Zealand. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 18: 1-37 [18-19, fig. 8-10].
Type data:
Holotype VUC (presumed lost), west of Chatham Islands, New Zealand, 300 m.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Mills, V.S. & O'Hara, T.D. 2013. Ophiuroids (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) of biogenic habitats on the continental shelf of New Zealand. Zootaxa 3613(5): 401–444 [414]
Miscellaneous Literature Names
- Amphiura latisquama Mortensen, 1924. —
Mills, V.S. & O'Hara, T.D. 2013. Ophiuroids (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) of biogenic habitats on the continental shelf of New Zealand. Zootaxa 3613(5): 401–444 [414] (revised status) - Amphioplus (Amphioplus) longirima Fell, 1952.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-Pacific, South Pacific
IMCRA
Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Lord Howe Province (14), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southern Province (8)
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, continental slope, marine.
General References
Fell, H.B. 1958. Deep-sea echinoderms of New Zealand. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 24: 1-40, pls 1-5 [28] (as Amphioplus longirima)
McKnight, D.G. 1967. Additions to the echinoderm fauna of the Chatham Rise. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 1(3): 291-313 [312] (as Amphioplus longirima)
Mills, V.S. & O'Hara, T.D. 2013. Ophiuroids (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) of biogenic habitats on the continental shelf of New Zealand. Zootaxa 3613(5): 401–444 [414] (as Amphiura latisquama Mortensen, 1924)
History of changes
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