Species Brissopsis luzonicus (Gray, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Kleinia luzonica Gray, J.E. 1851. Descriptions of new genera and species of Spatangidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2 7(13): 130-134 [133].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (whereabouts undetermined), Isle of Luzon, Philippines.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Dampier to North West Shelf, WA and Torres Strait to off Biley Is., Qld; Indo-Pacific Ocean. Depth range 10-1000 (?2000) m.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, NE coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

• West Pacific Ocean

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, deposit feeder, inshore, tropical.

 

General References

Clark, A.M. & Rowe, F.W.E. 1971. Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. London : Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) 238 pp. 100 figs 31 pls.

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567

Mortensen, T. 1951. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V (2). Spatangoida. II. Amphisternata II, Spatangidae, Loveniidae, Pericosmidae, Schizasteridae, Brissidae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 593 pp. 286 figs 64 pls.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023		11-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)