Species Cistina columbiae Gray, 1840

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• Cistina columbiae Gray, J.E. 1840. A synopsis of the genera and species of the Class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals and Magazine of Natural History ns 6: 175-184, 275-290 [283].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) (whereabouts undetermined, Clark (1921: 71) says types initially in BMNH but apparently lost; Rowe, F.W.E., this work (possibly 2 syntypes, BMNH 1938.6.13.18–19)), west coast of Columbia.
• Echinaster sladeni de Loriol, P. 1893. Catalogue raisonné des Echinodermes recueillis par M.V. de Robillard à l'Île Maurice. III. Ophiurides et Astrophytides. Supplement. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 32(3): 1-64 pls 23-25 [61 pl. 25(6)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) GMNH 793/7, ?Is Maurice; GMNH 739/8, ?Is Maurice; GMNH 739/9 2 specimens, ?Is Maurice.

 

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. [72]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Ribbon Reef, to the Swain Reefs, Qld; western Indian Ocean (Mascarene Is.), west Pacific Ocean. Depth range 0-15 m.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, inshore, marine, 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. (discuss improbability of Columbia being the type locality of Cistina columbiae Gray, 1840)

Clark, H.L. 1921. The echinoderm fauna of Torres Strait. Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 10: 1-224, 38 pls

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		04-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)