Species Conocladus australis (Verrill, 1876)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Astrophyton australe Verrill, A.E. 1876. Annelids and echinoderms [from Kerguelen Island]. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 3: 64-77 [74].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (whereabouts undetermined), Pearson's Pt, D'Entrecasteaux Channel, TAS.
• Conocladus oxyconus Clark, H.L. 1909. Notes on some Australian and Indo-Pacific echinoderms. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 52(7): 109-135 pl. 1 [132, pl. 1(1-3)].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 2896, off Port Jackson, NSW.
  Paratype(s) MCZ 2897; MCZ 4072.
• Astroconus annulatus Koehler, R. 1930. Ophiures recueillies par le Docteur Th. Mortensen dans les Mers d'Australie et dans l'Archipel Malais. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 89: 1-295 pls 1-22 [16-19, pl. 1(8-10)].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMUC (depository uncertain, whereabouts undetermined), Disaster Bay, NSW.
• Astroconus occidentalis Clark, H.L. 1938. Echinoderms from Australia. An account of collections made in 1929 and 1932. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 55: 1-596, figs 1-64, pls 1-28 [205-206, pl. 23(2)].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM Z1956 (old number: 116–37), North Beach, Fremantle, WA.
• Astroconus pulcher Clark, H.L. 1939. A new Astroconus from South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 6(3): 207-208 pl. 18 [207, pl. 18].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA K561, Cape Dutton, SA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Baker, A.N. 1980. Euryalinid Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from Australia, New Zealand, and the south-west Pacific Ocean. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 7: 11-83 figs 1-33 [46-51, fig. 12d-h, 14, 16, 17, 32] (as Conocladus australis)

 

Generic Combinations

• Conocladus australis (Verrill, 1876).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Stradbroke Island, QLD to Jurien Bay, WA. Depth range 6-420 m

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

 

General References

Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33 Echinodermata. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia 510 pp. [367]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023		22-Jul-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)