Species Comatula rotalaria (Lamarck, 1816)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Comatula rotalaria Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1816. Stellerides. In Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : Verdière Vol. 2 pp. 522-568. [534].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP ECCS1008 2 specimens, Australian seas (as 'les mers australes?').

 

Generic Combinations

• Capillaster rotalaria (Lamarck, 1816).
• Comatula rotalaria (Lamarck, 1816).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Monte Bello Ils, WA to Swain Reefs, Qld; east Indo-west Pacific Ocean. Depth range 0-70 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carpentaria, N coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

• West Pacific Ocean

Ecological Descriptors

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

 

General References

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 (as Validia rotalaria Lamarck, 1816)

Hoggett, A.K. & Rowe, F.W.E. 1986. A reappraisal of the family Comasteridae A.H. Clark, 1908 (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), with the description of a new subfamily and a new genus. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology Zool. 88: 103-142 figs 1-3

 

History of changes

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