Species Anthenea pentagonula (Lamarck, 1816)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Asterias pentagonula Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1816. Stellerides. In Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : Verdière Vol. 2 pp. 522-568. [554].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Australia (as 'les mers australes?').
• Anthenea regalis Koehler, R. 1910. Shallow-Water Asteroidea. Echinoderma of the Indian Museum. Calcutta : Indian Museum 191 pp. 20 pls. [82, pl. 9(1-2)].

  Type data:

   Holotype IM, coast of Ganjam, northern India.
  Paratype(s) IM 3 specimens.
• Anthenea rudis Koehler, R. 1910. Shallow-Water Asteroidea. Echinoderma of the Indian Museum. Calcutta : Indian Museum 191 pp. 20 pls. [86, pl. 11(4-6)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) IM 2 syntypes (depositry unconfirmed, most of collection of the IM donated to the Zoological Survey of India), Snod Is, Archipelago Mergai, India.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Port Hedland, WA to off Darwin, NT, east Indo-west Pacific Ocean. Depth range 9-90 m.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, inshore, marine, tropical.

 

General References

Clark, A.M. 1993. An index of names of recent Asteroidea—Part 2: Valvatida. pp. 187-366 in Jangoux, M. & Lawrence, J.M. (eds). Echinoderm Studies. Rotterdam : A.A. Balkema. [296] (validity doubtful, requires establishment of a neotype)

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.

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023		04-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)