Species Echinoneus cyclostomus Leske, 1778

Museums

Regional Maps

• Echinoneus cyclostomus Leske, N.G. 1778. Additamenta ad Jacobi Theodori Klein Naturalem Dispositionem Echinodermatum et Lucubratiunculam de Aculeis Echinorum Marinorum. Lipsiae. [109].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (whereabouts undetermined), locality unknown.
• Echinoneus dennanti Hall, S. 1907. Art. VIII.— Four new echinoids from the Australian Tertiary. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 19(2): 47-53 pls 13-16 [47, pl. 8(1-2)].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (whereabouts undetermined), 'Filter Quarries', Batesford, Barwonian (?Eocene), VIC.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 [353]
• Mortensen, T. 1948. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. IV (1). Holectypoida, Cassiduloida. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 363 pp. 326 figs 14 pls. [80]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

North West Cape, Rowley Shoals and Scott Reef, WA to North Solitary Is., NSW; Kermadec Island, Indo-Pacific Ocean. Depth range 0-120 m (?710), Oligocene to Miocene deposits from the West Indies, Mediterranean and Fiji, and Lower Miocene deposits from Victoria (as Echinoneus dennanti Hall, 1907).

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 Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

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, deposit feeder, inshore, 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 (also as Echinoneus dennanti Hall, 1907, fossil specimen)

Marsh, L.M., Vail, L.L., Hoggett, A.K. & Rowe, F.W.E. 1993. Part 6. Echinoderms of Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island. pp. 53-65 2 tables in Berry, P.F. (ed.). Marine faunal surveys of Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island North-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 44: 91 pp.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023		11-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)