Species Decametra parva (A.H. Clark, 1912)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Prometra parva Clark, A.H. 1912. Preliminary descriptions of eleven new crinoids belonging to the families Himerometridae, Mariametridae, and Colobometridae, discovered by the Siboga in the Dutch East Indies. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 10(3): 31-41 [39].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM, off Sailus Besar, Paternoster Ils, Indonesia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Decametra parva (A.H. Clark, 1912).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

North West Cape, WA to off Moreton Bay, QLD; west Pacific Ocean. Depth range 9-90 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 Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, N coast, NE coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

• West Pacific Ocean

Ecological Descriptors

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

 

General References

Clark, A.H. 1947. A monograph of the existing crinoids. Vol. 1. The comatulids. Part 4b.— Superfamily Mariametrida (concluded—the family Colobometridae) and superfamily Tropiometrida (except the families Thalassometridae and Charitometridae). Bulletin of the United States National Museum 82: 1-473 pls 1-43 [128]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023		26-Nov-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)