Species Asteronyx loveni Müller & Troschel, 1842

Museums

Regional Maps

• Asteronyx loveni Desjardins, J. in Müller, J. & Troschel, F.H. 1842. System der Asteriden. Braunschweig : Papier, Druck und Verlag 134 pp. 12 pls. [119, pl. 10(3-5)] [as Asteronyx lovéni].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZIUS, 'Bohuslän, Norway as far as Hammerfäst'.
• Ophiuropsis lymani Studer, T. 1884. Verzeichniss der während der Reise S.M.S. Gazelle um die Erde 1874–76 gesammelten Asteriden und Euryaliden. Abhandlungen der Akadamie der Wissenschaften Berlin 1884: 1-64 pls 1-5 [55, pl. 5(12a-d)].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB 2774, southwest of Dirk Hartog Is., WA [25°50'08"S 112°36'08"E].
• Astronyx locardi Koehler, R. 1896. Resultats scientifiques de la compagne du Caudan dans de Golfe de Gascogne. Echinodermes. Annales de l'Université de Lyon 26: 33-122 [88].
• Asteronyx dispar Lütken, C.F. & Mortensen, T. 1899. Reports on an exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and off the Galapagos Islands, in charge of Alexander Agassiz by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross, during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., comman. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 23(2): 93-208, pls 1-23 [185, pl. 21(1-2), 22(10-12)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) USNM 19592 1 specimen (Albatross stn 3354), SW Point Of Peninsula, Azuero Peninsula, North Pacific Ocean, 589m [7°9.75'N 80°50'W]; USNM 19593 4 specimens (Albatross stn 3392), SE of Azuero Peninsula, Punta Mala, Gulf of Panama, North Pacific Ocean, 2323m [7°5.5'N 79°40'W]; USNM 19595 2 specimens (Albatross stn 3398), Cojimies, North Pacific Ocean, 2877m [1°7'N 80°21'W]; USNM 19596 2 specimens (Albatross stn 3407), North of San Salvador Island, South Pacific Ocean, 1618m [0°4'S 90°24.5'W]; USNM 19597 2 specimens (Albatross stn 3431), Offshore Of Bay, Ventana Bay, Gulf of California, North Pacific Ocean, 1819m [23°59'N 108°40'W]; MCZ 2816 2 specimens (Albatross stn 3392), SE of Azuero Peninsula, Punta Mala, Gulf of Panama, North Pacific Ocean, 2323m [7°5.5'N 79°40'W]; MCZ 2875 1 specimen (Albatross stn 3393), SE of Azuero Peninsula, Punta Mala, Gulf of Panama, North Pacific Ocean, 1865m [7°15'N 79°36'W]; MCZ 2876 1 specimen (Albatross stn 3431), Offshore Of Bay, Ventana Bay, Gulf of California, North Pacific Ocean, 1819m [23°59'N 108°40'W].
• Astronyx cooperi Bell, F.J. 1909. Report on the echinoderms (other than holothurians) collected by Mr J. Stanley Gardiner in the western parts of the Indian Ocean. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 13(1): 17-22 [22].
• Ophiuraster patersoni Litvinova, N.M. 1998. Two new species of the genus Ophiuraster (Ophiurinae, Ophiuroidea, Echinodermata) from French collections and some remarks on the genus. Zoosystema 20: 439-444 [441-444, fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP EcOs4895 1 specimen (BIOGAS VI stn DS86), Bay of Biscay, 1950m [44°4.8'N 4°18.7'W].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Baker, A.N. 1980. Euryalinid Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from Australia, New Zealand, and the south-west Pacific Ocean. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 7: 11-83 figs 1-33 [16-18, fig. 2,3,29] (as Asteronyx loveni)
• Stöhr, S. 2005. Who's who among baby brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea): postmetamorphic development of some North Atlantic forms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 543-576 [545-546, fig. 1] (as Asteronyx loveni)

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Arctic, East Atlantic, East Pacific, Indian, Indo-Pacific, North Atlantic, North Pacific, South Africa, South America, South Pacific, West Atlantic

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Province (18), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)

Ecological Descriptors

Abyssal plain, benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

 

General References

Cherbonnier, G. & Sibuet, M. 1972. Resultats scientifique del al compagne Noratlante: Asterides et Ophiurides. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 3rd series. Zoologie 102: 365-426 [396] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Clark, A.M. & Courtman-Stock, J. 1976. The Echinoderms of Southern Africa. British Museum of Natural History Publication 766: 277 pp, 276 figs [129, fig. 93] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Clark, H.L. 1911. North Pacific ophiurans in the collection of the United States National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 75: 1-302, figs 1-144 [285-287] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Clark, H.L. 1913. Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Gulf of California in charge of C.H. Townsend, by the U.S. Fisheries Steamship 'Albatross' in 1911. Commander C.H. Burrage, U.S.N., Commanding. V. Echinoderms from Lower California, with descriptions of new spec. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 32: 185-236 [219] (as Asteronyx loveni)

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 [180] (as Asteronyx dispar)

Clark, H.L. 1916. I. Report on the sea-lilies, starfishes, brittle-stars and sea-urchins obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia. Endeavour Research 4(1): 1-123 figs 1-11 pls 1-44 [78] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Clark, H.L. 1923. The echinoderm fauna of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 13(7): 221-435 figs 1-4 pls 8-23 [314-315] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Clark, H.L. 1939. Ophiuroidea. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition 6(2): 29-136, figs 1-62 [39] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Clark, H.L. 1941. Reports on the scientific results of the Atlantis Expeditions to the West Indies. Echinoderms (other than holothurians). Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural "Felipe Poey" 15: 1-54 [74-75] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 [173-174] (as Ophiuropsis lymani)

D'yakonov, A.M. 1954. Ophiuroids of the USSR Seas. Moskva-Leningrad, USSR : Akademiya Nauk Soyuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik Vol. 55 136 pp, 47 figs. [14-15, fig. 4] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Dartnall, A.J. 1980. Tasmanian Echinoderms. Fauna of Tasmania Handbook No. 3. Hobart : Fauna of Tasmania Committee 82 pp. 36 figs 5 pls. [39, 68] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Döderlein, L. 1911. Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte Ostasiens. Über japonische und andere Euryalae. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2(5): 1-123 pls 1-9 [115] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Döderlein, L. 1927. Indopacifische Euryalae. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 31(6): 1-105 pls 1-10 [59-63, pl. 7(7-8)] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Döderlein, L. 1930. Die Ophiuroiden der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. 2. Euryale. Deutsche Tiefsee-Expedition 1898–1899 22(6): 349–396, figs 1–24, pls 14–16 [384-385, fig. 16] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Imaoka, T., Irimura, S., Okutani, T., Oguro, C., S 1991. Echinoderms from continental shelf and slope around Japan Vol. 2. Tokyo : Japan Fisheries Resource Conservation Association 203 pp. [114-115, fig. 39] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Koehler, R. 1897. Échinodermes recueillis par l'Investigator dans l'Océan Indien. I. Les ophiures de mer profonde. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie 8(4): 277-372, pls 5-9 [370] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Koehler, R. 1904. Ophiures de mer profonde. Siboga-Expéditie Report 45(a): 1-176 pls 1-36 [167] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Koehler, R. 1907. Ophiures. Expéditions Scientifiques du 'Travailleur' et du 'Talisman' pendent les années 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883 7: 245-311 [303] (as Asteronyx locardi)

Koehler, R. 1907. Ophiuroidea. pp. 241-254 figs 1-10 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 1 Part 4. [303] (as Asteronyx locardi)

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 [34] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Koehler, R. 1922. Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea. Scientific Reports of the Australasian Antarctic Research Expedition, 1911-1914 8: 1-98 pls 76-90 [10] (as Asteronyx loveni)

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 [23] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Lambert, P. & Austin, W.C. 2007. Brittle Stars, Sea Urchins and Feather Stars of British Columbia, Southeast Alaska and Puget Sound. Victoria, Canada : Royal BC Museum 150 pp. [71-72, fig. 27, pl. C-16] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Liao, Y. & Clark, A.M. 1995. The echinoderms of southern China. Beijing : Science Press 614 pp., 23 pls. [165-166, fig. 71] (as Asteronyx loveni)

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 [285] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Lyman, T. 1883. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Caribbean Sea in 1878–79, and among the Atlantic coast of the United States during the summer of 1880, by the U.S. Coast Survey steamer Blake, Commander J.R. Bartl. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 10(6): 227-287, pls 1-8 [282] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Manso, C.L.C. 2010. Deep-water Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from off Chile in the Eastern South Pacific. Biota Neotropica 10(2): 1-15 [3, fig. 3a-e] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Matsumoto, H. 1917. A monograph of Japanese Ophiuroidea, arranged according to a new classification. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo 38(2): 1-408, figs 1-100, pls 1-7 [33-34, fig. 6, pl. 1(14-16)] (as Asteronyx loveni)

McKnight, D.G. 2000. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Basket-stars and snake-stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Euryalinida). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 115: 1-79 [13-15, fig. 2, pl. 1] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Mortensen, T. 1933. Echinoderms of South Africa (Asteroidea: Ophiuroidea). Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 93: 215-400, figs 1-91, pls 8-19 [300-301] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Mortensen, T. 1933. Ophiuroidea. Danish Ingolf-Expedition 4(8): 121pp. [7-8, pl. 2(1)] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Mortensen, T. 1933. Studies of Indo-Pacific euryalids. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 96: 1-75 figs 1-57 pls 1-5 [70] (as Ophiuropsis lymani)

Paterson, G.L.J. 1985. The deep-sea Ophiuroidea of the North Atlantic Ocean. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 49(1): 1-162, figs 1-59 [13-15, fig. 9] (as Asteronyx loveni)

Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33 Echinodermata. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia 510 pp. [355] (as Asteronyx loveni)

 

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