Species Fibulariella volva (L. Agassiz, 1847)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Fibularia volva Agassiz, L. in Agassiz, L. & Desor, E. 1847. Catalogue raisonné des espèces, des genres et des familles d'Échinides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie 3 7: 129-168 [pl. 15 from Vol. 6] [142].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP EcEs8266, Red Sea.
  Paralectotype(s) MNHP EcEs5259.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Dollfus, R.P. & Roman, J. 1981. Les échinides de la Mer Rouge. Monographie zoologique et paléontologique 9: 1-145 20 figs 41 pls [94].

 

Generic Combinations

• Fibulariella volva (L. Agassiz, 1847). —
  Mooi, R. & Munguia, A. 2014. Sea Urchins of the Philippines. 232 in Williams, G. C. & T.M. Gosliner. The Coral Triangle: the 2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition. San Francisco, California, U.S.A : California Academy of Sciences.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Torres Strait to Lizard Is. Qld; (Indo-west Pacific Ocean). Depth range shallow to at least 50 m

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

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 [348] (recorded Fibularia volva Agassiz, 1847 in Australia)

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. [214] (records op. cit. appear to be misidentifications of Fibularia oblonga Gray, 1851)

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] (Australian distribution uncertain)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Feb-2012		17-Feb-2012	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)