Species Bathyplotes natans (Sars, 1868)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Holothuria natans Sars, M. 1868. Om Afbildninger af nogle af hans Son i forrige Aar ved Lofoten fundne Echinodermer og Coelenterater. Bulletin of the Mauritius Institute 1867: 19-23 [20].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (whereabouts undetermined), Lofoten, Norway.
• Stichopus moseleyi Théel, H. 1886. Holothurioidea. Part 2. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 39: 1-290 pls 1-16 [165, pl. 10(19-20)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1886.10.2.136–138, southwest coast of Patagonia, Argentina.
• Stichopus pourtalesii Théel, H. 1886. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877–78) in the Caribbean Sea (1879–80), and along the eastern coast of the United States during the summer of 1880, by the U.S. Coast Survey steamer Blake, Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXX. Report on the Holothuroidea. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 13(1): 1-21 1 pl. [4].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MCZ 435, central east America (St Kitt, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Belize (as British Honduras), Barbados); MCZ 436, central east America; MCZ 437, central east America; MCZ 438, central east America; MCZ 439 many specimens, central east America.
• Bathyplotes assimilis Koehler, R. & Vaney, C. 1905. Deep-sea Holothurioidea. Echinoderma of the Indian Museum. Calcutta : Indian Museum 123 pp. 15 pls. [25, pls 3(3), 10(1-8)].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (whereabouts undetermined), Indian Ocean, 9º29´20˜N 75º38´E.
• Bathyplotes papillosus Koehler, R. & Vaney, C. 1905. Deep-sea Holothurioidea. Echinoderma of the Indian Museum. Calcutta : Indian Museum 123 pp. 15 pls. [28, pl. 10(21-24)].

  Type data:

   Holotype IM, Indian Ocean.
• Bathyplotes patagiatus Fisher, W.K. 1907. The holothurians of the Hawaiian Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 32(1555): 637-744 pls 66-82 [688, pl. 72(1,1a-k)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) USNM 21216 4 specimens, Hawaiian Ils.
• Bathyplotes ostergreni Ohshima, H. 1915. Report on the holothurians collected by the United States Fisheries steamer Albatross in the northwestern Pacific during the summer of 1906. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 48(2073): 213-291 pls 8-11 [225, pl. 8(3a-d)] [as Bathyplotes Östergreni].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 34145, off Goto Ils, west of Kyushu (Japan).
  Paratype(s) USNM.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Rowe, F.W.E. in Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Echinodermata. In, Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia xiii 510 pp. [Date published 30 May 1995] (Bathyplotes tizardi (Théel, 1886) removed from synonymy of Bathyplotes natans (Sars, 1868) and considered a valid species, with junior synonyms Bathyplotes fallax Östergren, 1896 and Bathyplotes reptans Perrier, 1902, since these three species share the possession of 'C'-rods in the body wall; Bathyplotes natans, Bathyplotes moseleyi (Théel, 1886) and the other species included here in the synonymy of Bathyplotes natans lack the 'C'-rods in the body wall; see also under Bathyplotes sulcatus Sluiter, 1901)

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Broken Bay, NSW to Cape Everard, Vic, Wanganella Bank, Tasman Sea; Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and New Zealand. Depth range 183-1600 m.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 mile fishing zone: SE oceanic
• New Zealand

Nearctic Region

Oriental Region

• West Pacific Ocean

Palaearctic Region

• Atlantic Ocean

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental slope, deposit feeder, detritivore, temperate.

 

General References

Pawson, D.L. 1965. The bathyal holothurians of the New Zealand region. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 39: 1-33 figs 1-7 [16] (indicates wide variation in the form of tables supposedly occurring in the cosmopolitan species Bathyplotes natans (Sars, 1868))

Rowe, F.W.E. 1989. Nine new deep-water species of Echinodermata from Norfolk Island and Wanganella Bank, northeastern Tasman Sea, with a checklist of the echinoderm fauna. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 111(4): 257-291 12 figs 1 table

 

History of changes

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