Species Gorgonocephalus pustulatum (H.L. Clark, 1916)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Astrodendrum pustulatum Clark, H.L. 1916. I. Report on the sea-lilies, starfishes, brittle-stars and sea-urchins obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia. Endeavour Research 4(1): 1-123 figs 1-11 pls 1-44 [84-85, pl. 34(1-2)].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM E4700, east of Flinders Is., TAS.
• Gorgonocephalus moluccanus Döderlein, L. 1927. Indopacifische Euryalae. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 31(6): 1-105 pls 1-10 [26-27, pl. 2(2-2b)].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM E1472, Pitt Passage, Gomomo Is., Indonesia.
• Gorgonocephalus pectinatus Mortensen, T. 1933. Echinoderms of South Africa (Asteroidea: Ophiuroidea). Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 93: 215-400, figs 1-91, pls 8-19 [281-285, fig. 16-17, pl. 18(1-2)].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAM, off East London, South Africa.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Baker, A.N. 1980. Euryalinid Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from Australia, New Zealand, and the south-west Pacific Ocean. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 7: 11-83 figs 1-33 [54-56, fig. 18b, 20, 30] (as Gorgonocephalus pustulatum)

 

Generic Combinations

• Gorgonocephalus pustulatum (H.L. Clark, 1916).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific, South Africa, South Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Central Eastern Province (12), Northeast Transition (19), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

 

General References

Baker, A.N. 1974. New species of brittle-stars from New Zealand (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Records of the Dominion Museum, Wellington 8(15): 247-266, figs 1-9 [252] (as Gorgonocephalus pustulatum)

Clark, A.M. & Courtman-Stock, J. 1976. The Echinoderms of Southern Africa. British Museum of Natural History Publication 766: 277 pp, 276 figs [133, fig. 86, 88] (as Gorgonocephalus pectinatus)

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 [181] (as Astrodendrum pustulatum)

Dartnall, A.J. 1980. Tasmanian Echinoderms. Fauna of Tasmania Handbook No. 3. Hobart : Fauna of Tasmania Committee 82 pp. 36 figs 5 pls. [39, 68] (as Astrodendrum pustulatum)

McKnight, D.G. 2000. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Basket-stars and snake-stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Euryalinida). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 115: 1-79 [49-51, fig. 22, pl. 21] (as Gorgonocephalus pustulatum)

Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33 Echinodermata. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia 510 pp. [368] (as Gorgonocephalus pustulatum)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023		26-Nov-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)