Species Echinocyamus platytatus H.L. Clark, 1914

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Species Echinocyamus platytatus H.L. Clark, 1914

Echinocyamus platytatus Clark, H.L. 1914. Hawaiian and other Pacific Echini. The Clypeastridae, Arachnoididae, Laganidae, Fibulariidae and Scutellidae. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 46(1): 1-80 pls 122-143 [63, pl. 127(1-6)].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MCZ 2306 57 specimens, Portsea, VIC.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Port Stephens, NSW to Point d'Entrecasteaux, WA. Depth range 9-365 m

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)

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), 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), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, deposit feeder, inshore, temperate.

General References

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 (misidentified as Echinocyamus provectus De Meijere, 1904)

Clark, H.L. 1909. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. Thetis. Echinodermata. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(11): 519-564, pls 47-58 (misidentified as Echinocyamus provectus De Meijere, 1904)

Clark, H.L. 1914. Hawaiian and other Pacific Echini. The Clypeastridae, Arachnoididae, Laganidae, Fibulariidae and Scutellidae. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 46(1): 1-80 pls 122-143 ('… holotype and numerous other specimens in the MCZ collection are from Port Phillip, Victoria' but failed to specify holotype)

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 (misidentified as Echinocyamus provectus De Meijere, 1904, in part; also Echinocyamus platytatus H.L. Clark, 1914 in part))

Mortensen, T. 1948. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. IV (2). Clypeastroida. Clypeastridae, Arachnoididae, Fibulariidae, Laganidae and Scutellidae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 471 pp. 258 figs 72 pls.

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
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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