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Species Fibularia ovulum Lamarck, 1816

Fibularia ovulum 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. [17].
Type data:
Neotype BMNH 1902.3.13.44 (original material lost), North Male, Maldive Islands.
Subsequent designation 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. [168].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Raine Is. to Lizard Is. Qld; Indo-west Pacific Ocean. Depth range 0-385 m, 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

Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, 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. 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 (as Fibularia craniolaris (Leske, 1778), at least part according to )

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

Mortensen, T. 1948. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. IV (1). Holectypoida, Cassiduloida. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 363 pp. 326 figs 14 pls.

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] (South Australian records refer to Fibularia oblonga Gray, 1851)

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)