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Species Diploporaster savignyi (Fourtau, 1904)

Schizaster savignyi Fourtau, R. 1904. Contribution a l'étude des Echinides vivant dans le Golfe de Suez. Bulletin de l'Institut Egyptien 4 5: 407-446 pl. 1 [436, pl. 1(4-5)].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (whereabouts undetermined), Gulf of Suez (Red Sea).

Generic Combinations

Diploporaster savignyi (Fourtau, 1904).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

NT to Torres Strait Qld; western Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka. Depth range unknown. (Pleistocene deposits from the Red Sea)

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)

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IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, deposit feeder, tropical.

General References

Clark, A.M. & Rowe, F.W.E. 1971. Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. London : Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) 238 pp. 100 figs 31 pls. (as Diploporaster savignyi)

Clark, H.L. 1925. A Catalogue of the Recent Sea Urchins (Echinoidea) in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum 250 pp. 12 pls. [202] (identified specimens from Torres Strait)

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 (as Paraster savignyi (Fourtau, 1904))

McNamara, K.J. & Philip, G.M. 1980. Australian Tertiary schizasterid echinoids. Alcheringa 4: 47-65 figs 1-9

McNamara, K.J. & Philip, G.M. 1980. Living Australian schizasterid echinoids. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 104(2): 127-146 figs 1-13 (do not mention the Torres Strait specimens op. cit. or this species as occurring in Australian waters, inclusion therefore tenuous)

Mortensen, T. 1951. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V (2). Spatangoida. II. Amphisternata II, Spatangidae, Loveniidae, Pericosmidae, Schizasteridae, Brissidae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 593 pp. 286 figs 64 pls. [241] (doubts the identity of specimens op. cit. (Diploporaster ? savignyi))

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)
17-Feb-2012		17-Feb-2012	MOVED
17-Feb-2012		17-Feb-2012	MOVED
17-Feb-2012		17-Feb-2012	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)