Species Astrobrachion constrictum (Farquhar, 1900)

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• Ophiocreas constrictus Farquhar, H. 1900. On a new species of Ophiuroidea. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 32(51): 405-406 [405-406].

  Type data:

   Holotype OMNZ, Dusky Sound, New Zealand.
• Ophiocreas phanerum 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 [79, pl. 33(1-2)].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM E6297 1 specimen, off Cape Barren, Cape Barren Is., TAS.
  Paratype(s) AM E2267 3 specimens, off Cape Barren, Cape Barren Is., TAS; AM J2727 1 specimen, off Cape Barren, Cape Barren Is., TAS; AM E4726 1 specimen, Eastern Slope, Bass Strait; AM J2358 2 specimens, 8 mi east of Sandon Bluffs, NSW; AM E4692 1 specimen, East of Flinders Is, Tas; NHRM Type-5160 1 specimen, East of Flinders Is, Tas; MCZ 3934 1 specimen, off Cape Barren, Cape Barren Is., TAS; MCZ 3935 1 specimen, SE of Cape Everard, Vic; MCZ 3936 1 specimen, east of Sandon Bluffs, NSW; MCZ 4029 1 specimen, off Cape Barren, Cape Barren Is., TAS.
• Ophiuropsis lymani simplex 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 [71, pl. 6(31-32)].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMUC (depository uncertain), off southeast Australia, 38º12´S 149º40´E.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [99-102, fig. 1(1), pl. 4(5-6)] (as Ophiocreas constrictum)
• 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 [24-27, fig. 6, 30] (as Astrobrachion constrictum)

 

Generic Combinations

• Astrobrachion constrictum (Farquhar, 1900).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific, South Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

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

 

General References

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 [178] (as Ophiocreas constrictum)

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 [176] (as Ophiocreas phanerum)

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 Ophiocreas phanerum)

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 [113] (as Asteroschema (Ophiocreas) constrictum)

Döderlein, L. 1927. Indopacifische Euryalae. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 31(6): 1-105 pls 1-10 [77] (as Astrobrachion constrictus)

Fell, H.B. 1952. Echinoderms from Southern New Zealand. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 18: 1-37 [13] (as Astrobrachion constrictum)

Fell, H.B. 1958. Deep-sea echinoderms of New Zealand. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 24: 1-40, pls 1-5 [22] (as Astrobrachion constrictum)

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 [41-42, pl. 5(4-5)] (as Ophiuropsis sp.)

McKnight, D.G. 2000. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Basket-stars and snake-stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Euryalinida). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 115: 1-79 [40-42, fig. 17, pl. 16] (as Astrobrachion constrictum)

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 [69, fig. 54] (as Astrobrachion constrictum)

Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33 Echinodermata. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia 510 pp. [358] (as Astrobrachion constrictum)

 

History of changes

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