Species Echinaster varicolor H.L. Clark, 1938

Museums

Regional Maps

• Echinaster varicolor 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 [184, pl. 11(1)].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 3339, southwest of Broome, WA.
  Paratype(s) BMNH (depository uncertain); AM J6184 3 specimens, Broome, WA; NMV F45120, SW of Broome, WA; SAMA K729; WAM Z1742 1 specimen (old number: 125–39), Broome, WA.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Esperance to Broome WA; (New Caledonia). Depth range 0-52 m.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, inshore, marine, temperate, 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.

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

Jangoux, M. 1986. Les astérides. pp. 111-153 in Guille, A., Labonte, P. & Menou, J-L. (eds). Guide des étoiles de mer oursins et autres echinodermies du layon le Nouvelle-Calédonie. Paris : ORSTOM.

Rowe, F.W.E. & Albertson, E.L. 1987. A new species in the echinasterid genus Echinaster Müller and Troschel, 1840 (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from southeastern Australia and Norfolk Island. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 109(3): 195-202 figs 1-4

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] (according to L.M. Marsh (pers comm.) the specimens recorded by Guille et al. (op. cit.) from New Caledonia may be misidentified and represent instead, Echinaster luzonicus (Gray, 1840))

 

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)