Species Comatula solaris Lamarck, 1816

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Species Comatula solaris Lamarck, 1816

Comatula solaris Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1816. Stellerides. In Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : Verdière Vol. 2 pp. 522-568. [533].
Type data:

Syntype(s) MNHP ECCS1009, Australian seas (as 'les mers australes?'); MNHP ECCS1010, Australian seas (as 'les mers australes?'); MNHP ECCS1011, Australian seas (as 'les mers australes?'); MNHP ECCS1012, Australian seas (as 'les mers australes?').

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Houtman Abrolhos, WA to Port Curtis, QLD; west Pacific Ocean. Depth range 0-22 m.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Oriental Region

West Pacific Ocean

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, inshore, marine, suspension feeder, tropical.

General References

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 [745] (recorded a specimen of Comatula pectinata (Linnaeus, 1758) from NSW in AM collections)

Clark, A.H. 1931. A monograph of the existing crinoids. Vol. 1. The comatulids. Part 3. — Superfamily Comasterida. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 82: 1-816 pls 1-82 [356, 359] (record op. cit. erroneous)

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

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

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] (two specimens in AM collection from Port Jackson identified as Comatula pectinata (Linnaeus, 1758), presumably by Clark, have been reidentified as Comatula solaris Lamarck, 1816, locality record considered erroneous)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

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

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