Species Cenometra bella (Hartlaub, 1890)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Antedon bella Hartlaub, C. 1890. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Comatuliden-Fauna des Indischen Archipels. Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 5: 168-187 [174].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMG 4 specimens, Noordwachter Eiland, near Jakarta (as Batavia), Java, Indonesia.
• Cenometra cornuta Clark, A.H. 1911. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. Thetis. Recent crinoids of Australia. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(15): 705-804 [723, 772] [based on specimens from NW Australia recorded as Antedon sp. (near Antedon macronema) by Bell, F.J. 1894. On the echinoderms collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Penguin and by H.M.S. Egeria, when surveying Macclesfield Bank. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1894: 392–413 pls 23–27 (394)].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1891.10.17.1, Adele Is., northern Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Bell, F.J. 1894. On the echinoderms collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Penguin and by H.M.S. Egeria, when surveying Macclesfield Bank. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1894: 392-413 pls 23-27.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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.

 

Generic Combinations

• Cenometra bella (Hartlaub, 1890).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Ashmore Reef to Bushy Island, QLD; east Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean. Depth range 0-55 m.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, inshore, marine, suspension feeder, tropical.

 

General References

Clark, A.H. 1947. A monograph of the existing crinoids. Vol. 1. The comatulids. Part 4b.— Superfamily Mariametrida (concluded—the family Colobometridae) and superfamily Tropiometrida (except the families Thalassometridae and Charitometridae). Bulletin of the United States National Museum 82: 1-473 pls 1-43

Marsh, L.M., Vail, L.L., Hoggett, A.K. & Rowe, F.W.E. 1993. Part 6. Echinoderms of Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island. pp. 53-65 2 tables in Berry, P.F. (ed.). Marine faunal surveys of Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island North-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 44: 91 pp.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023	ECHINODERMATA	24-Aug-2023	MODIFIED	Nish Nizar (NMV)
15-Sep-2023		11-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)