Species Astrothorax waitei (Benham, 1909)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Astrotoma waitei Benham, W.B. 1909. Scientific results of the New Zealand Government trawling expedition 1907. Echinoderma. Records of the Canterbury Museum 1(2): 83-116 pls 7-11 [101-104, pl. 9(1-6)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) CMNZ 3 specimens, east coast of Otago, New Zealand.
• Astrothamnus rugosus 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 [85-86, pl. 35(1-2)].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM E4965, east of Flinders Is., Bass Strait, TAS.
  Paratype(s) AM E4733; AM E4732; MCZ 3942 3 specimens.
• Astrothamnus papillatus 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 [316-318, pl. 20(5-6)].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAM A6443, Cape Hangklip, South Africa.
  Paratype(s) MCZ 4310.
• Astrothamnus furtivus 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 [6-9, pl. 1(1-2)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMUC (depository uncertain, whereabouts undetermined), off Wilson's Promontory (38º15´–39º15´S), VIC.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 [177-178] (as Astrothamnus rugosus)
• 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 [30-32, fig. 8, 31] (as Astrothorax waitei)

 

Generic Combinations

• Astrothorax waitei (Benham, 1909).

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific, South Africa, South Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Timor Province (2), Norfolk Island Province (21), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

 

General References

Clark, A.M. & Courtman-Stock, J. 1976. The Echinoderms of Southern Africa. British Museum of Natural History Publication 766: 277 pp, 276 figs [132] (as Astrothorax papillata)

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 [181] (as Astrotoma waitei)

Döderlein, L. 1927. Indopacifische Euryalae. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 31(6): 1-105 pls 1-10 [21] (as Astrocrius waitei; Recombination only)

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 [380-381, fig. 11, 14k, pl. 2(2,2a)] (as Astrothorax waitei)

Fell, H.B. 1952. Echinoderms from Southern New Zealand. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 18: 1-37 [13-14] (as Astrotoma waitei)

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 Astrothorax waitei)

Fell, H.B. 1960. Archibenthal and littoral echinoderms of the Chatham Islands: Biological results of the Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition. Bulletin of N.Z. scient. Ind. Res. 139(2): 55-74 [67] (as Astrothorax waitei)

McKnight, D.G. 1967. Additions to the echinoderm fauna of the Chatham Rise. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 1(3): 291-313 [305] (as Astrothorax waitei)

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

McKnight, D.G. 1993. Records of echinoderms (excluding holothurians) from the Chatham Islands. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 20: 191-200 [193, 199] (as Astrothorax waitei)

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 [174, 186] (as Astrothorax waitei)

McKnight, D.G. 2000. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Basket-stars and snake-stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Euryalinida). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 115: 1-79 [61-63, fig. 30, pl. 29] (as Astrothorax waitei)

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 [104, fig. 3, pl. 4(2)] (as Astrotoma waitei)

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 [279-280, fig. 15] (as Astrothorax papillata)

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 [22-23, fig. 13, pl. 5(33)] (as Astrothorax furtivus; 2 specimens)

Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33 Echinodermata. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia 510 pp. [366] (as Astrothorax waitei)

 

History of changes

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