Species Antedon incommoda Bell, 1888

Museums

Regional Maps

• Antedon incommoda Bell, F.J. 1888. Notes on echinoderms collected at Port Phillip by Mr. J. Bracebridge Wilson. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 2(11): 401-407 [404].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1884.11.12.5–6,13, Port Phillip, VIC.
• Antedon incommoda austini Clark, A.M. 1967. [Species description]. p.162 in Clark, A.H. & Clark, A.M. A monograph of the existing crinoids. Vol. 1. The comatulids. Part 5. — Suborders Oligophreata (concluded) and Macrophreata. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 82: 1-860 figs 1-53 [162, figs 10b-e].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 86.2.25.4–9, Lewis Is., Dampier Archipelago, NW Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Rowe, F.W.E. in Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Echinodermata. In, Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia xiii 510 pp. [Date published 30 May 1995] [121]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Port Curtis, QLD to Dampier, WA; southwest Pacific Ocean. Depth range 0-65 m.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, Great Australian Bight, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NE coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
• Southwest Pacific Ocean

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, inshore, marine, suspension feeder, temperate.

 

General References

Clark, A.H. & Clark, A.M. 1967. A monograph of the existing crinoids. Vol. 1. The comatulids. Part 5. — Suborders Oligophreata (concluded) and Macrophreata. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 82: 1-860 figs 1-53 (as Antedon incommoda incommoda Bell, 1888, and Antedon incommoda austini A.M. Clark, 1967)

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. (refers to Antedon incommoda austini A.M. Clark, 1967)

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 (as Compsometra incommoda (Bell, 1888))

 

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)