Species Astrophiura permira Sladen, 1879
Compiler and date details
2012 - Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
- Astrophiura permira Sladen, W.P. 1879. On the structure of Astrophiura, a new and aberrant genus of Echinodermata. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 4: 401-415, pl. 20 [410, pl. 20(1-10)].
Type data:
Status unknown, BMNH, Madagascar. - Astrophiura cavellae Koehler, R. 1915. Description d'une nouvelle espèce d'Astrophiura, l'Astrophiura cavellae. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique Monaco 311: 1-16 [1, fig. 1-6].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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 [354-356] (as Astrophiura cavellae)
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Indian, Indo-Pacific, South Africa, West Atlantic
IMCRA
Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, marine.
General References
Cherbonnier, G. & Guille, A. 1976. Sur la présence, à I'île Heard, de l'Ophiure Astrophiura permira Sladen. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 3e serie 351: 17-21 [17-20, fig. 1] (as Astrophiura permira)
Clark, A.M. 1977. South African Museum's Meiring Naude cruises. 4 Echinoderms. Annals of the South African Museum 73(6): 133-147 [143-144] (as Astrophiura permira)
Clark, A.M. & Courtman-Stock, J. 1976. The Echinoderms of Southern Africa. British Museum of Natural History Publication 766: 277 pp, 276 figs [188, fig. 207] (as Astrophiura permira)
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 [345] (as Astrophiura permira)
Hertz, M. 1927. Die Ophiuroiden der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. 1. Chilophiurida Mats. (Ophiolepididae: Ophioleucidae: Ophiodermatidae: Ophiocomidae). Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898–1899 22(3): 59–122 pls 6–9 [83-85] (as Astrophiura permira)
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 [394-396, fig. 90-91] (as Astrophiura permira)
Paterson, G.L.C. & Baker, A.N. 1988. A revision of the genus Ophiambix (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) including the description of a new species. Journal of Natural History 22: 1579-1590 [fig. 3c] (as Astrophiura permixta)
Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33 Echinodermata. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia 510 pp. [430] (as Astrophiura permira; Sladen wrote three papers dealing with Astrophiura permira, the first in 1878 and two in the following year. It is a 1879 work which is quoted as that representing the first official description of the taxon, which would render previous uses of Astrophiura permira as nomen nudum; this requires clarification)
History of changes
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