Species Parvulastra exigua (Lamarck, 1816)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Asterias exigua 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:

   Neotype TM H508, False Bay, South Africa.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Dartnall, A.J. 1971. Australian sea stars of the genus Patiriella (Asteroidea: Asterinidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(1): 39-49 fig. 1 pls 3-4 [40].
• Asterina krausii Gray, J.E. 1840. A synopsis of the genera and species of the Class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals and Magazine of Natural History ns 6: 175-184, 275-290 [289].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1840 11.25.1, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa; BMNH 1840.11.25.5, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dartnall, A.J. 1971. Australian sea stars of the genus Patiriella (Asteroidea: Asterinidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(1): 39-49 fig. 1 pls 3-4 [40]

 

Generic Combinations

• Patiriella exigua (Lamarck, 1816). —
  Verrill, A.E. 1913. Revision of the genera of starfishes of the sub-family Asterininae. American Journal of Science 4 35: 477-485
• Parvulastra exigua (Lamarck, 1816). —
  O'Loughlin, P.M. & Waters, J.M. 2004. A molecular and morphological revision of the genera of Asterinidae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 61: 1-40 [27] (new combination as type species of Parvulastra)

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Currumbin, Qld to Spencer Gulf, SA; (South Africa, St Paul Group). Littoral waters

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, inshore, marine, 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 (records from temperate waters)

Dartnall, A.J. 1971. Australian sea stars of the genus Patiriella (Asteroidea: Asterinidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(1): 39-49 fig. 1 pls 3-4

Rowe, F.W.E. 1989. Nine new deep-water species of Echinodermata from Norfolk Island and Wanganella Bank, northeastern Tasman Sea, with a checklist of the echinoderm fauna. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 111(4): 257-291 12 figs 1 table

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023	ECHINODERMATA	16-May-2024	MODIFIED	Nish Nizar (NMV)
12-Feb-2012		12-Feb-2012	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)