Species Toxopneustes pileolus (Lamarck, 1816)

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Species Toxopneustes pileolus (Lamarck, 1816)

Echinus pileolus Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1816. Echinides. pp. 1–59 in, Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Edn 1 Vol. 3. Paris. 1-59 pp. [45].
Type data:
Status unknown, MNHP EcEs5008, coasts of Mauritius (as côtes de l'Ile-de-France).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Shark Bay, WA to Montague Is., NSW; Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean. Depth range 0-90 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)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), 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, Central W coast, Lower E coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

West Pacific Ocean

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, 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.

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.

Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III (2). Camarodonta I. Orthopsidae, Glyphocyphidae, Temnopleuridae and Toxopneustidae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 553 pp. 321 figs 56 pls.

Rowe, F.W.E. 1989. Nine new deep-water species of Echinodermata from Norfolk Island and Wanganella Bank, northeastern Tasman Sea, with a checklist of the echinoderm fauna. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 111(4): 257-291 12 figs 1 table

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)
15-Sep-2023		11-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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