Species Colochirus crassus Ekman, 1918

Museums

Regional Maps

• Colochirus crassus Ekman, S. 1918. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. XIX. Holothurioidea. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 58(6): 1-70 pls 1-5 [6, pls 1(1-4), 3(1-7)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NHRM Type-1462, off Cape Jaubert, WA; NHRM Type-1470, off Cape Jaubert, WA.
• Colochirus quadrangularis australoides Panning, A. 1949. Versuch einer Neuordnung der Familie Cucumariidae. Zoologische Jahrbücher 78: 404-470 figs 1-62 [447, fig. 48] [as Colochirus quadrangularis var. australoides].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMH E.2824 2 specimens, Bowen, QLD.

 

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]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Houtman Abrolhos, WA to Double Island Point, Qld and (unspecified) northern NSW; Indo-Malayan Region. Depth range 0-58 m.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Central W coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, inshore, suspension feeder, 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. (as Pentacta crassa)

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

 

History of changes

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