Species Coscinasterias muricata Verrill, 1867

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• Coscinasterias muricata Verrill, A.E. 1867. Notes on the Radiata in the Museum of Yale College with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 1(2): 247-351 [249].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (whereabouts undetermined), Auckland, New Zealand.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Port Denison, Qld to Houtman Abrolhos, WA; southwest Pacific. Depth range 0-140 m. New Zealand

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), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, inshore, marine, temperate.

 

General References

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

Rowe, F.W.E. 1989. Nine new deep-water species of Echinodermata from Norfolk Island and Wanganella Bank, northeastern Tasman Sea, with a checklist of the echinoderm fauna. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 111(4): 257-291 12 figs 1 table [290] (considered a valid species and taken out of synonymy with Coscinasterias calamaria (Gray))

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] (on the basis that Coscinasterias muricata Verrill possesses a carinal row of alternating four-lobed and elliptical skeletal plates along each arm, it was raised from the synonymy of Coscinasterias calamaria (Gray, 1840, as Asterias), which shares with Stolasterias tenuispinus (Lamarck, 1816), type species of Stolasterias Sladen, 1889), a carinal row comprising only four-lobed plates. Gray's (1840) species, Asterias calamaria, is herein transferred to the genus Stolasterias Sladen, 1889, which is raised from subgeneric rank within the genus Coscinasterias to generic rank on the basis of the same skeletal character—see also Stolasterias calamaria (Gray))

 

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)