Species Asteroporpa (Asteroporpa) australiensis H.L. Clark, 1909

Museums

Regional Maps

• Astroporpa australiensis Clark, H.L. 1909. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. Thetis. Echinodermata. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(11): 519-564, pls 47-58 [547-548, pl. 54(2)] [as Astroporpa australiensis, lapsus; H.L. Clark (1916) corrects spelling of generic name to Asteroporpa australiensis].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM G11433, off Wollongong, N.S.W.
• Astroporpa wilsoni Bell, F.J. 1917. Echinoderma. Part 1. — Actinogonidiata. British Antarctic 'Terra Nova' Expedition 1910. Zoology 4(1): 1-10 pls 1-2 [7] [as Astroporpa wilsoni, lapsus].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1915.2.1.78, 9, east of North Cape, New Zealand.

 

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 [35]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific, South Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Norfolk Island Province (21), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Southern Province (8)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, inshore, marine.

 

General References

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 [35-36, fig. 8, 31] (as Asteroporpa (Asteroporpa) australiensis)

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 [183] (as Asteroporpa australiensis)

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 [80-81] (as Asteroporpa australiensis)

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 [204] (as Asteroporpa australiensis)

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 [178] (as Asteroporpa australiensis)

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 Asteroporpa australiensis)

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 [fig. 6] (as Asteroporpa australiensis)

Fell, H.B. 1951. Some off-shore and deep-sea ophiuroids from New Zealand waters. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 13: 1-4 [4] (as Astroporpa wilsoni)

Fell, H.B. 1958. Deep-sea echinoderms of New Zealand. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 24: 1-40, pls 1-5 [21] (as Asteroporpa wilsoni)

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 [13-14, pl. 1(11-13), 2(1)] (as Astroporpa australiense)

McKnight, D.G. 1968. Some echinoderms from the Kermadec Islands. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 2(3): 505-526 [519-520] (as Asteroporpa wilsoni)

McKnight, D.G. 1975. Some echinoderms from the northern Tasman Sea. Records of the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute 2(5): 49-76 [61] (as Asteroporpa wilsoni)

McKnight, D.G. 1993. Records of echinoderms (excluding holothurians) from the Norfolk Ridge and Three Kings Rise north of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 20: 165-190 [186] (as Asteroporpa australiensis)

McKnight, D.G. 2000. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Basket-stars and snake-stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Euryalinida). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 115: 1-79 [57, fig. 26, pl. 25] (as Asteroporpa australiensis)

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 [106-107, pl. 6(8-9)] (as Astroporpa wilsoni)

Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33 Echinodermata. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia 510 pp. [362] (as Asteroporpa (Asteroporpa) australiensis)

 

History of changes

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